White House press corps

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.

Reporters ask questions at a White House Press Briefing in 2019

Overview

Photographers and videographers in the Oval Office in 2019

Semi-permanent setup of press corps on the west end of the north White House lawn, from where live media broadcasts with the White House are typically delivered

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.

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, to the White House correspondent's position.

History

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.[1]

Correspondents

Current

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

NBC News/MSNBC – Hallie Jackson, Peter Alexander, Geoff Bennett,[2] Kelly O'Donnell, Shannon Pettypiece, Kristen Welker
Fox News/Fox Business – John Roberts, Blake Burman, Kevin Corke
CBS News/CBSN[3] – Major Garrett, Sara Cook,[4] Paula Reid, Ben Tracy, Weijia Jiang
ABC News – Jonathan Karl, Devin Dwyer, Katherine Faulders,[5] Jon Garcia,[6] John R. Parkinson[7] Jordyn Phelps,[8] Cecilia Vega
CNN[9] – Jim Acosta, Jeff Zeleny, Kate Bennett, Kaitlan Collins, Stephen Collinson, Jeremy Diamond, Kevin Liptak, Allie Malloy
CNBC – Eamon Javers,[10] Kayla Tausche, Christina Wilkie[11]
Telemundo – Maria Peña[12]
Foreign Press – Takaaki Abe (Nippon TV), Gustau Alegret (NTN24),[13] Nadia Bilbassy (Al Arabiya),[14] Ching-Yi Chang (Shanghai Media Group), Philip Crowther (France 24),[15] Peter Kleim (n-tv), Raquel Krähenbühl (GloboNews),[16] Richard Latendresse (TVA Group), Cordelia Lynch (Sky News),[17] Joy Malbon (CTV News)
Regional Press – Scott Thuman (Sinclair Broadcast Group)
PBS News – Yamiche Alcindor
Al Jazeera English – Alan Fisher, Kimberly Halkett
Newsmax TV – Emerald Robinson,[18] John Gizzi[19]
Christian Broadcasting Network – David Brody, Jennifer Wishon[20]
Univision – Janet Rodriguez,[21] Fernando Pizarro[22]
BBC World News – Jon Sopel, Tara McKelvey
One America News Network – Chanel Rion
C-SPAN – Sean Doody,[23] Victor Montoro[24]
NY1 – Emily Ngo[25]

Print and Internet

Associated Press[26] – Jill Colvin, Kevin Freking, Jonathan Lemire, Aamer Madhani, Zeke Miller, Deb Riechmann, Darlene Superville
Reuters – Jeff Mason,[27] Steve Holland,[28] James Oliphant[29]
The Wall Street Journal – Rebecca Ballhaus, Michael Bender,[30] Catherine Lucey,[31] Andrew Restuccia[32]
Bloomberg News – Cheryl Bolen,[33] Mike Dorning,[34] Jennifer Epstein,[35] Jordan Fabian[36] Jennifer Jacobs[37] Justin Sink[38]
The Washington Post – Dave Clarke,[39] Josh Dawsey,[40] Toluse Olorunnipa, David Nakamura, Ashley Parker, Phillip Rucker[41]
The New York Times – Peter Baker, Maggie Haberman, Annie Karni, Michael D. Shear, Al Drago,[42] Katie Rogers[43]
USA Today – David Jackson[44]
Agence France-Presse – Andrew Beatty, Jérôme Cartillier[45]
McClatchy – Francesca Chambers,[46] Michael Wilner[47]
Politico – Nancy Cook,[48] Anita Kumar[49]
Foreign Press – Yavuz Atalay (Akşam),[50] Conrad Chaffee (Tokyo Shimbun),[51] J. Jesús Esquivel (Proceso)[52] Raghubir Goyal (India Globe),[53] Lalit Jha (Press Trust of India),[54] Lucía Leal (EFE)[55]
The Washington Times – Dave Boyer[56]
The Hill – Niall Stanage
Voice of America – Steven L. Herman
National Journal – George Condon,[57] Tom DeFrank[58]
Time – Brian Bennett[59]
Regional Newspapers – Todd Gillman (Dallas Morning News),[60] Liz Goodwin (The Boston Globe),[61] Frank Lockwood (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette)[62] Debra Saunders (Las Vegas Review-Journal), Eli Stokols (Los Angeles Times),[63] Lynn Sweet (Chicago Sun-Times)
Christian Science Monitor – Linda Feldman[64]
Real Clear Politics – Carl Cannon[65]
Washington Examiner – Katherine Doyle[66]
Yahoo! News – Hunter Walker
Daily Mail – David Martosko, Nikki Schwab
HuffPost – Jennifer Bendery[67]
Roll Call – John T. Bennett[68]
BuzzFeed News – Rosie Gray[69]
The Daily Beast – Lachlan Markay[70]
The Guardian – David Smith
Financial Times – Demetri Sevastopulo[71]
Axios – Alayna Treene[72]
Breitbart – Charlie Spiering[73]
CNSNews.com – Melanie Arter[74]
The Daily Signal – Fred Lucas[75]
Environment & Energy Publishing – Evan Lehmann[76]
Newsweek – Andrew Feinberg
Playboy – Brian Karem[77]
TruNews[78] – Edward Szall[79]
U.S. News and World Report – Kenneth T. Walsh
Washington Blade – Chris Johnson[80]
AWPS News – Kristina Anderson[81][82]
ThePavlovicToday.com – Ksenija Pavlovic[83]
WestWingReports.com – Paul Brandus[84]

Radio

CBS News Radio – Mark Knoller, Steven Portnoy
NPR – Tamara Keith, Mara Liasson, Franco Ordoñez,[85] Ayesha Rascoe,[86] Roberta Rampton[87]
AP Radio – Sagar Meghani[88]
American Urban Radio Networks – April Ryan
ABC News Radio – Karen Travers[89]
Foreign Press – Marek Walkuski (Polish Radio),[90]
Fox News Radio – Jon Decker
Sirius-XM – Olivier Knox[91]
Salem Radio Network – Greg Clugston[92]
Salem Media Group - Leland McKee
Westwood One News – Bob Costantini[93]
Talk Media News[94] – Jon-Christoper Bua,[95] Doug Christian

Notable former correspondents

Mike Allen – Politico
Jim Angle – National Public Radio
Jim Axelrod – CBS News
Bret Baier – Fox News
Richard Benedetto – USA Today
Bob Berkowitz – CNN
Wolf Blitzer – Jerusalem Post
David Bloom – NBC News
Caren Bohan – Reuters
Rita Braver – CBS News
David Broder – The Washington Post
Tom Brokaw – NBC News
Campbell Brown – NBC News
Carl Cameron – Fox News
Lou Cannon – The Washington Post, National Journal
Ann Compton – ABC News Radio
Helene Cooper – The New York Times
Steve Daley – Chicago Tribune
James Deakin – St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Ann Devroy – Gannett Company, USA Today, The Washington Post
John Dickerson – Time
Sam Donaldson – ABC News
John Donvan – ABC News
Bill Downs – ABC News
Mike Emanuel – Fox News
Trude Feldman – The New York Times, The Washington Post
Thomas Friedman – The New York Times
David Gregory – NBC News
Wendell Goler – Fox News
Don Gonyea – NPR
Savannah Guthrie – NBC News
Laura Haim - Canal+
Ed Henry – Fox News
Jesse J. Holland – Associated Press
Brit Hume – ABC News
Gwen Ifill – The New York Times
Chris Jansing – MSNBC
Tom Jarriel – ABC News
Herb Kaplow – NBC News
John King – CNN
Greg Kelly – Fox News
Michelle Kosinski – CNN[96]
Connie Lawn – USA Radio Network
Carl Leubsdorf – The Baltimore Sun, The Dallas Morning News
Jennifer Loven – Associated Press
Suzanne Malveaux – CNN
Christoph von Marschall – Der Tagesspiegel
Jane Mayer – The Wall Street Journal
Sarah McClendon
Myles Miller – The Daily
Andrea Mitchell – NBC News
Terry Moran – ABC News
Sara Murray – CNN
Sophia A. Nelson – Jet Magazine
Norah O'Donnell – NBC News, MSNBC, CBS News
Susan Page – USA Today
John Palmer – NBC News
Scott Pelley – CBS News
Bill Plante – CBS News
Sean Quinn – FiveThirtyEight.com
Martha Raddatz – ABC News
Margaret Brennan – CBS News[97]
Dan Rather – CBS News
Chip Reid – CBS News
John D. Roberts – CBS News
Arlette Saenz – ABC News, CNN
Bill Sammon – The Washington Times, The Washington Examiner
Bob Schieffer – CBS News
Ari Shapiro – National Public Radio
Claire Shipman – NBC News
Hugh Sidey – Time
Mark Smith – Associated Press
Paul Sperry – Investor's Business Daily
Lesley Stahl – CBS News
Jake Tapper – ABC News
Helen Thomas – Hearst Newspapers, United Press International
Bob Thompson – Hearst Newspapers
Chuck Todd – NBC News
Alvin Toffler – York Gazette Daily
Jim VandeHei – The Washington Post
Mike Viqueira – Al Jazeera America
Chris Wallace – NBC News
Brian Williams – NBC News
Juan Williams – The Washington Post
Richard Wolffe – Newsweek
Judy Woodruff – NBC News
Byron York – National Review

References

External links

White House Correspondents' Association official website

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