Meet the 32 ‘new media’ outlets the White House invited to its press pool
When the White House took over its press pool in February — giving it control over which journalists received close access to President Donald Trump — it announced it would start inviting in “new media.”
That invitation has since gone to 32 outlets, a motley group that includes everything from decades-old magazines to much newer podcasts. The majority are conservative or right-wing — often explicitly so — but the rest defy easy categorization. There are three religious networks, all of which lean conservative, as well as a mix of outlets that includes a legacy paper, television networks and a digital outlet powered by artificial intelligence and Web3.
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