The White House briefing room contains just 49 seats in very tight quarters, a fact that makes for quite a bit of vying for the choicest spots. On Friday, the White House Correspondents Association…
wrote that criteria for seating assignments included long-standing service on the beat, “ensuring that the seats are dependably filled, as assigned” and “seeing to it that the briefing room reflects the country it covers.”He wrote that 65 news organizations and entities received assignments, and of those, 14 were getting their first ever seats in the room. Thirty of the news organizations are sharing seats.
The most visible seats are, obviously, in the first row, and those assignments have not changed: NBC News, FOX News, CBS News, AP, ABC News, Reuters and CNN. Nor has the second row: The Wall Street Journal, CBS News Radio, Bloomberg, NPR, The Washington Post, The New York Times and USA Today. Missing from the list compared to 2017: SiriusXM, Westwood One, The New York Daily News, Talk Radio News, OAN and BuzzFeed.
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