According to the Presidential News Conferences tracking database from the University of California-Santa Barbara, President Biden is averaging roughly 11 news conferences per year. How does that stack up with past presidents?
The data also shows the number of"exchanges with reporters," which counts any time a president is posed questions by the press in public, such as when he’s deboarding Air Force One or other impromptu moments.
Separately, UCSB also tracks “Press briefings,” which rarely involve the president, aside from exceptions like Trump's participation in Coronavirus Task Force Press briefings. These are typically events when the White House Press Secretary fields questions from the press corps. Trump averaged 93 press briefings per year, though the database summary notes how “For a period, the Trump Administration discontinued regular press briefings with the Press Secretary.”the media of covering then-Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders “rudely & inaccurately,” limited the number of on-camera “daily” press briefings to about one per month by the end of 2018, and suspended the briefings altogether in early 2019.
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