Freedom of the Press – The United State Media

He’s the Face of a White House Press Corps Under Attack by Trump

Reporter USMarch 3, 2025

Eugene Daniels didn’t plan on being the face of the White House press corps in the dawn of a new administration hostile to the news media. But because of a clause in the bylaws of the White House Correspondents’ Association, an 800-strong group of journalists who report on the president, he was next in line […]

Voice of America Journalists Face Investigations for Comments About Trump

Reporter USMarch 2, 2025

Voice of America, the federally funded broadcaster to the world, has long prided itself on serving as an accurate and fair source of news and on being independent of whichever president and party are in power in the United States. Since the election of President Trump, that independence is increasingly being tested. In recent months, […]

Voice of America Journalists Face Investigations for Comments About Trump

Reporter USMarch 1, 2025

White House Moves to Pick the Pool Reporters Who Cover Trump

Reporter USFebruary 25, 2025

The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said on Tuesday that the Trump administration would start handpicking which media outlets were allowed to participate in the presidential pool, the small, rotating group of journalists who relay the president’s day-to-day activities to the public. The change announced by Ms. Leavitt breaks decades of precedent. The White […]

A.P. Sues Trump Officials Over White House Ban

Reporter USFebruary 21, 2025

The Associated Press filed a lawsuit on Friday against top White House officials, accusing them of violating the First and Fifth Amendments by denying A.P. reporters access to press events in retaliation for references to the Gulf of Mexico in its articles. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of […]

Fox News, CNN and Other Outlets Urge White House to Drop AP Ban

Reporter USFebruary 20, 2025

Dozens of major news organizations, including CNN, The Washington Post and Fox News, wrote to the White House this week urging the Trump administration to immediately lift its ban on The Associated Press, which had been prohibited from attending a number of official press events over the past week. The White House has said it […]

AP Accuses White House of Violating First Amendment

Reporter USFebruary 12, 2025

The Associated Press on Wednesday accused the White House of violating the First Amendment and called on the Trump administration to stop blocking its reporters from press events. Julie Pace, the executive editor of The A.P., said in a letter addressed to Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, that the White House had […]

Trump’s Blueprint for Bending the Media Has Nixon Written All Over It

Reporter USFebruary 9, 2025

Voters had delivered the president to the White House for a second term, disregarding news about arrests and indictments of former aides accused of breaking the law to help keep him in power. Now, the newly emboldened president and his top officials had a message for the reporters who covered it all so aggressively: It […]

Trump and Musk Attack Journalists by Name in Social Media Posts

Reporter USFebruary 8, 2025

President Trump has made clear his animus toward mainstream media organizations. Now he’s getting more personal. Mr. Trump and his key lieutenant, Elon Musk, who has been empowered to run what they call the Department of Government Efficiency as a “special government employee,” have attacked journalists by name in recent days on the social media […]

Trump Administration to Remove 4 Major News Outlets From Pentagon Office Space

Reporter USFebruary 2, 2025

The Trump administration notified four major news organizations late on Friday that they would have to give up their dedicated office space at the Pentagon to make way for other outlets, including the right-wing sites Breitbart News and One America News. In a memo, a Department of Defense spokesman, John Ullyot, said that The New […]