Press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that henceforth the White House press team—not the White House Correspondents’ Association—will determine which journalists are in the press pool.
“As you all know, for decades, a group of the D.C.-based journalists, the White House Correspondents’ Association, has long dictated which journalists get to ask questions of the president of the United States in his most intimate spaces,” Leavitt said in Tuesday’s press briefing. “Not anymore.”
The press pools are small, partially rotating subsets of the White House press corps that cover the president in smaller venues such as the Oval Office or aboard Air Force One.
Leavitt said legacy outlets will retain access, but “well-deserving outlets who have never been allowed to share in this awesome responsibility” will be granted the opportunity to be in pool. The…
