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The White House press "pool" gets its name from the briefing room which used to be a pool until President Richard Nixon converted the pool into a briefing room. The pool, which was covered, still remains under the briefing room. [6] In 1977, a court ruled in Sherrill v. Knight that the White House had a limited right to deny a press pass.
Helen Amelia Thomas (August 4, 1920 – July 20, 2013) [1] was an American reporter and author, and a long-serving member of the White House press corps.She covered the White House during the administrations of ten U.S. presidents—from the beginning of the Kennedy administration to the second year of the Obama administration.
A pool feed is then distributed to members of the broadcast pool who are free to edit it or use it as they see necessary. In the case of print reporters, a written pool report is distributed to all members. A pool spray is a brief photo opportunity, for instance at the White House following a meeting. [1]
The White House Correspondents' Association said on Thursday CNN has rejected multiple requests to include White House pool reporters inside the studio during the first presidential debate between ...
CNN is rejecting a request from the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) to allow a pool reporter to be in the room for the entirety of Thursday night’s debate between President ...
The White House press corps is already "exhausted" at the outset of the second Trump administration. "Anybody who went through it the last time remembers how nonstop it was. It ends up kind of ...
In December 2005, the White House announced the intention to renovate the aging Press Briefing Room and cramped press corps offices. [6] On August 2, 2006, the final briefing was held, and President George W. Bush hosted several previous press secretaries at a closing ceremony and there was some hesitation and concern about whether the press would be allowed to return to the White House.
She has been the secretary and a board member of the White House Correspondents' Association. [2] [4] She has been noted for her impressions of notable figures such as Laura Bush, Michelle Obama, Elizabeth Warren and John Boehner. [9] [10] Readers of FishbowlDC in 2012 voted Mason "class clown" of the Washington press corps. [11]