White House to allow seats for 'new media' in briefing room
The White House is rolling out a new policy allowing opportunities for so-called “new media” outlets and content creators to ask questions during press briefings.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced the move during her first briefing on Tuesday, saying President Trump is ready to retool the administration around “the new media landscape.”
“We welcome independent journalists, podcasters and social media influencers,” she said.
Leavitt said The White House would also reinstate the press privileges of dozens of outlets that were “wrongly revoked by the previous administration,” including roughly 440 journalists.
She added that the seats in the briefing room previously occupied by White House staff would be filled by members of the new media and get to ask the first question, which on Tuesday went to Axios’s Mike Allen and Breitbart’s Matt Boyle.
“As long as you are creating news content of the day and are a legitimate independent journalist you are welcome to cover this White House,” she added.
The changes come after Trump rebuffed a number of mainstream media outlets along the campaign trial, opting instead to sit for interviews with a number of podcasters, content creators and other internet personalities.
“It’s essential to our team that we share President Trump’s message everywhere,” Leavitt said Tuesday.
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