The White House press corps (or the White House press pool) is the group of journalists or correspondents usually stationed at the White House to cover White House press briefings and press releases.
The press briefings take place in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room. There is no equivalent to the British Parliament's press gallery at the White House, either as the name of a place or a group of journalists, although at the United States Capitol journalists do occupy galleries of their own at the House of Representatives and Senate chambers. Journalists who specialize in covering the U.S. Congress are known as congressional correspondents.
The White House correspondents have often come under criticism for not challenging the people they cover more directly and for shirking its Fourth Estate responsibility. The White House Press Secretary or a deputy generally holds a daily public news briefing.
When a new President of the United States is elected, the networks change their correspondents, most often to the reporter that was assigned to cover the new president during the preceding campaign. For example, after the 2008 presidential campaign, ABC News promoted Jake Tapper, who had covered Barack Obama during his presidential campaign, to the White House correspondent's position.
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Notable White House correspondents
- Jake Tapper of ABC News
- Chip Reid of CBS News
- Chuck Todd of NBC News
- Savannah Guthrie of NBC News
- Ed Henry of CNN
- Major Garrett of Fox News
- Wendal Goler of Fox News
- David Broder of The Washington Post
- Mike Allen of TIME
- Richard Wolffe of Newsweek
- Les Kinsolving of WorldNetDaily
- Rob Reynolds of Al Jazeera English
- Trude Feldman
- Sean Quinn of FiveThirtyEight.com
- Helen Thomas of Hearst Corporation
- Charles Babington of Associated Press
Past
- Sam Donaldson
- Dan Rather
- Tom Brokaw
- Andrea Mitchell
- Martha Raddatz
- David Gregory
- Wolf Blitzer
- John King
- Jane Mayer
- Sarah McClendon
- Brian Williams
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