#press-access

#press-access

Epicenter, a multiplatform community and news organization founded during the pandemic to help New Yorkers navigate COVID-19 while spotlighting arts, small businesses and ensuring resources reached those who needed them most, has faced this challenge repeatedly. Community, ethnic and small media outlets have long struggled to get responses from government and corporate press teams that prioritize outlets with perceived scale and reach.

Trump, and the rest of his administration, love to complain about the Times and other big, mainstream media outfits. They also love talking to them. Earlier this week, for instance, key Trump advisor Stephen Miller appeared on CNN for a much-discussed interview with Jake Tapper, where he laid out a bellicose view of America's role in the world. A few days before that, Trump talked to The Wall Street Journal - another publication he's currently suing - for a story about his health and fitness.

This comes as a New York State bill, entitled Keep Police Radio Public Act, passed by both the Assembly (A.3516) and the state Senate (S.416), and now awaits Gov. Kathy Hochul's signature. She has till Friday to sign or veto the bill. It is unclear what she plans to do, but if she fails to act, the measure will automatically become law.

LindellTV, election denier Mike Lindell's media company, posted to its X account and noted, Press Stunned as Speaker Johnson Walks Out Without Taking Questions. In a rare move, @SpeakerJohnson exited his Monday morning remarks without taking a single question leaving reporters stunned and scrambling down the hallway after him, continued the post, adding: According to gallery rules, the Speaker is expected to take at least one question. Johnson has never skipped Q&A before. After weeks of daily shutdown updates and follow up questions,

Maybe the policy should look like the White House or other military installations where you have to wear a badge that identifies that you're press, or you can't just roam anywhere you want. It used to be, Mr. President, the press could go anywhere, pretty much anywhere in the Pentagon, the most classified area in the world.

Sometimes presidents are press averse; Trump embraced the media, Collins said. He did it for decades as like this New York mogul, and so he just had a different approach to the press, and always has. Collins also said that, because Trump likes to take questions from the media, events that were once considered bland are now must-attend spectacles for the press.

The changes we've made have actually created more transparency, more accessibility and greater access for a broad variety of outlets and a diversity of journalists.