White House press corps
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The White House press corps is the group of journalists, correspondents, and members of the media usually assigned to the White House in Washington, D.C., to cover the president of the United States, White House events, and news briefings. Its offices are located in the West Wing.
Overview[edit]

The White House press secretary, or a deputy, generally holds a weekday news briefing in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room, which currently seats 49 reporters. Each seat is assigned to a news gathering organization, with the most prominent organizations occupying the first two rows. Reporters who do not have an assigned seat may stand. Often a smaller group of reporters known as the "White House press pool" is assembled to report back to their colleagues on events where the venue would make open coverage logistically difficult.[citation needed]
When a new U.S. president is elected, some news organizations change their correspondents, most often to the reporter who had been assigned to cover the new president during the preceding campaign. For example, after the 2008 presidential campaign, ABC News moved Jake Tapper, who had covered Barack Obama during his presidential campaign,[citation needed] to the White House correspondent's position.[1]
History[edit]
The White House press corps had their first duties in the White House in the early 1900s. An urban legend exists of President Theodore Roosevelt noticing a group of correspondents in the rain looking for sources for their stories and inviting them into the White House. Subsequent historical research outlines how reporters were able to start with small stories in the White House and then grew their presence and influence over a span of many years.[2]
Correspondents[edit]
Current[edit]
The White House Correspondents' Association organizes the seating chart. Reporters are listed by last name, unless designated as "chief" or "senior" by their news organization, as follows.
Television[edit]
- NBC News/MSNBC – Hallie Jackson, Peter Alexander, Geoff Bennett,[3] Kelly O'Donnell, Shannon Pettypiece, Kristen Welker
- Fox News/Fox Business – John Roberts,[4] Kristin Fisher,[5] Blake Burman, Kevin Corke[citation needed]
- CBS News/CBSN – Weijia Jiang,[6] Paula Reid,[7] Ben Tracy,[8] Major Garrett, Mark Knoller,[9]
- ABC News – Jonathan Karl, Devin Dwyer, Katherine Faulders,[10] Jon Garcia,[11] John R. Parkinson[12] Jordyn Phelps,[13] Cecilia Vega
- CNN – Jake Tapper,[1] Kaitlan Collins,[7] Stephen Collinson,[14] Jeremy Diamond,[15] Kevin Liptak,[16] Jim Acosta,[17] Kate Bennett[18]
- CNBC – Eamon Javers,[19] Kayla Tausche, Christina Wilkie[20]
- Telemundo – Maria Peña[21]
- Foreign Press – Takaaki Abe (Nippon TV), Gustau Alegret (NTN24),[22] Nadia Bilbassy (Al Arabiya),[23] Ching-Yi Chang (Shanghai Media Group), Philip Crowther (France 24),[24] Peter Kleim (n-tv), Raquel Krähenbühl (GloboNews),[25] Richard Latendresse (TVA Group), Cordelia Lynch (Sky News),[26] Joy Malbon (CTV News)
- Regional Press – Scott Thuman (Sinclair Broadcast Group)
- PBS News – Yamiche Alcindor[27]
- Al Jazeera English – Alan Fisher, Kimberly Halkett
- Newsmax TV – Emerald Robinson,[28] John Gizzi,[29] Logan Ratick
- Christian Broadcasting Network – David Brody, Jennifer Wishon[30]
- Univision – Janet Rodriguez,[31] Fernando Pizarro[32]
- BBC World News – Jon Sopel, Tara McKelvey
- One America News Network – Chanel Rion[33]
- C-SPAN – Sean Doody,[34] Victor Montoro[35]
- NY1 – Emily Ngo[36]
Print and Internet[edit]
- New York Post - Steven Nelson[37]
- Associated Press – Jill Colvin, Kevin Freking, Jonathan Lemire, Aamer Madhani, Zeke Miller, Deb Riechmann, Darlene Superville[38]
- Reuters – Jeff Mason,[39] Steve Holland,[40] James Oliphant[41]
- The Wall Street Journal – Rebecca Ballhaus, Michael Bender,[42] Catherine Lucey,[43] Andrew Restuccia[44]
- Bloomberg News – Mike Dorning,[45] Jennifer Epstein,[46] Jordan Fabian[47] Jennifer Jacobs[48] Justin Sink[49]
- The Washington Post – Dave Clarke,[50] Josh Dawsey,[51] Toluse Olorunnipa, Seung Min Kim, David Nakamura, Ashley Parker, Phillip Rucker[52]
- The New York Times – Peter Baker, Maggie Haberman, Annie Karni, Michael D. Shear, Al Drago,[53] Katie Rogers[54]
- USA Today – David Jackson,[55] John Fritze,[56] Michael Collins,[57] Courtney Subramanian [58]
- Agence France-Presse – Andrew Beatty, Jérôme Cartillier[59]
- McClatchy – Francesca Chambers,[60] Michael Wilner[61]
- Politico – Nancy Cook,[62] Anita Kumar[63]
- Foreign Press – Yavuz Atalay (Akşam),[64] Conrad Chaffee (Tokyo Shimbun),[65] J. Jesús Esquivel (Proceso)[66] Raghubir Goyal (India Globe),[67] Lalit Jha (Press Trust of India),[68] Lucía Leal (EFE)[69]
- The Washington Times – Dave Boyer[70]
- The Hill – Niall Stanage
- Voice of America – Steven L. Herman
- National Journal – George Condon,[71] Tom DeFrank[72]
- Time – Brian Bennett[73]
- Regional newspapers – Todd Gillman (Dallas Morning News),[74] Liz Goodwin (The Boston Globe),[75] Frank Lockwood (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)[76] Debra Saunders (Las Vegas Review-Journal), Eli Stokols (Los Angeles Times),[77] Lynn Sweet (Chicago Sun-Times)
- Christian Science Monitor – Linda Feldman[78]
- Real Clear Politics – Carl Cannon[79]
- Washington Examiner – Rob Crilly,[80] Katherine Doyle[81]
- Yahoo! News – Hunter Walker
- Daily Mail – David Martosko, Nikki Schwab
- HuffPost – Jennifer Bendery[82]
- Roll Call – John T. Bennett[83]
- BuzzFeed News – Rosie Gray[84]
- The Daily Beast – Lachlan Markay[85]
- Blaze Media - Kevin Ryan[86]
- The Guardian – David Smith
- Financial Times – Demetri Sevastopulo[87]
- Axios – Alayna Treene[88]
- Breitbart – Charlie Spiering[89]
- CNSNews.com – Melanie Arter[90]
- The Daily Signal – Fred Lucas[91]
- Environment & Energy Publishing – Evan Lehmann[92]
- Newsweek – Andrew Feinberg, Elizabeth Crisp[93]
- Playboy – Brian Karem[94]
- TruNews[95] – Edward Szall[96]
- U.S. News and World Report – Kenneth T. Walsh
- Washington Blade – Chris Johnson[97]
- AWPS News – Kristina Anderson[98][99]
- ThePavlovicToday.com – Ksenija Pavlovic[100]
- WestWingReports.com – Paul Brandus[101]
Radio[edit]
- CBS News Radio – Mark Knoller, Steven Portnoy
- NPR – Tamara Keith, Mara Liasson, Franco Ordoñez,[102] Ayesha Rascoe,[103] Roberta Rampton[104]
- AP Radio – Sagar Meghani[105]
- American Urban Radio Networks – April Ryan
- ABC News Radio – Karen Travers[106]
- Foreign Press – Marek Walkuski (Polish Radio),[107]
- Fox News Radio – Jon Decker
- Sirius-XM – Olivier Knox[108]
- Salem Radio Network – Greg Clugston[109]
- Salem Media Group – Leland McKee
- Westwood One News – Bob Costantini[110]
- Talk Media News[111] – Jon-Christoper Bua,[98] Doug Christian
Notable former correspondents[edit]
See also[edit]
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