White House press corps

White House Press Pool Losing Scoops to Twitter

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 09:31:20 -0400

Full article: Politico
Amie Parnes
The temptations of Twitter are clashing with a White House press corps tradition: the pool report. Some reporters in the rotating pool of journalists who chronicle the president's movements are sending TwitPics, revealing factoids and delivering one-line quips in 140 characters before the pool reports go to all of their colleagues.

Fox Moves to Front Row, AP Gets Center Seat, at WH Briefings

Lindsy Embree — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:54:24 -0400

Full article: Broadcasting & Cable
John Eggerton
The board of the White House Correspondents Association has decided to move the Associated Press to the front-row center seat in the White House briefing room. Fox, will move up from the second row to AP's front row-seat, and NPR will move to Fox's second-row seat next to Bloomberg.

NPR Now Vying for Front-Row White House Seat

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 10:15:59 -0400

Full article: Yahoo! News
Michael Calderone
Fox News and Bloomberg aren't the only news organizations vying for the front-row-center seat that's been up for grabs since Helen Thomas's resignation last month. NPR is also making a run for it.

Reporters Scramble for White House's Prize Perch

Lindsy Embree — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 07:55:27 -0400

Full article: Wall Street Journal
Michael M. Phillips and Jonathan Weisman
Helen Thomas's blue-padded seat in the front row of the White House briefing room has barely cooled, but her former colleagues in the press are already climbing over each other to fill it.

Death Knell for White House Press Corps Skips a Beat

Lindsy Embree — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:17:14 -0400

Full article: Columbia Journalism Review
Holly Yeager
If the White House press corps want to make a case that something's really at risk, they need to do a better job in showing off some recent examples of White House reporting we really couldn't do without.

Death of the White House Press Corps

Lindsy Embree — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 10:56:21 -0400

Full article: Daily Beast
Lloyd Grove
Is the White House press corps teetering on the brink of obsolescence? That is, are Twitter, Facebook and YouTube poised to supplant the often-skeptical journalistic stylings of CBS, CNN, and the <em>New York Times</em>?

White House Press Corps Feels Bypassed by Obama in Favor of TV shows, YouTube

Lindsy Embree — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:42:20 -0500

Full article: Washington Post
Howard Kurtz
It would be hard -- impossible, actually -- to argue that Obama hasn't been accessible to the media, not with his constant television interviews. The man has even done color commentary at a Georgetown basketball game. But the decision to bypass the White House press corps is no accident.

Few News Conferences, but Still Taking Questions

Lindsy Embree — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:11:41 -0500

Full article: New York Times
Peter Baker
Over the last two weeks, President Obama has taken questions from unemployed workers in Ohio, students in Florida and a cancer survivor in New Hampshire. He took questions from YouTube users, Senate Democrats and even House Republicans. Almost everyone, it seems, but the White House press corps.

Foreign Journalists Join Press Pool

Lindsy Embree — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:57:55 -0400

Full article: Politico.com
Carol L. Lee
Members of the foreign press have won a place, at least temporarily, in the press pool for events held at the White House. One foreign journalist at a time will participate in pooled events at the White House, and their pool reports will be distributed to the rest of the press corps.

White House Press Corps Happy to Attend Barack Obama's Off-the-Record BBQ

Stevie Converse — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:24:50 -0400

Full article: Gawker
John Cook
Reporters from roughly 30 television networks, newspapers, magazines, and web sites celebrated the Fourth of July with Barack Obama at the White House last weekend. Why did they agree to attend an off-the-record party at the White House?