In announcing plans to handpick the reporters who can ask the president questions, the White House is breaking decades of precedent.
Category: Freedom of the Press
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A.P. Sues Trump Officials Over White House Ban
The wire service sued three of them for denying its reporters access to press events. The White House has objected to The A.P.’s references to the Gulf of Mexico in articles.
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Fox News, CNN and Other Outlets Urge White House to Drop AP Ban
Dozens of major news organizations, including some conservative outlets, urged the Trump administration to stop blocking The Associated Press from press events.
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AP Accuses White House of Violating First Amendment
The Associated Press said the White House had blocked its journalists from attending two press events because the news agency had not started using the term Gulf of America.
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A.P. Accuses White House of Violating First Amendment
The Associated Press said the White House had blocked its journalists from attending two press events because the news agency had not started using the term Gulf of America.
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Trump’s Blueprint for Bending the Media Has Nixon Written All Over It
The president’s heavy-handed approach to traditional journalists has the hallmarks of an attempted crackdown 50 years ago.
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Trump Administration to Remove 4 Major News Outlets From Pentagon Office Space
The New York Times, NBC News, NPR and Politico will be replaced by outlets including the right-wing site Breitbart News as part of a “new annual media rotation,” a spokesman said.
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CBS Rebukes Anchor Over Tense Interview With Ta-Nehisi Coates
Executives said the interview, conducted by the morning show anchor Tony Dokoupil, had fallen short of network editorial standards.
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Hong Kong Journalists Convicted of Sedition in Stand News Case
The editors said they published stories in the public interest. A judge ruled they were guilty of a crime against national security.
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Sarah Palin Is Granted New Libel Trial Against The New York Times
A federal appeals court said that the judge overseeing the original trial, which Ms. Palin lost, had wrongly excluded evidence and might have swayed jurors as they were deliberating.