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The White House Press Corps Gears Up for Another Trump Term

Columbia Journalism Review · Jake Lahut · last updated

The return of Donald Trump to the White House has prompted predictable worries among many DC-based reporters about how his administration might seek to control and intimidate the press. But for a surprising number of people on the daily White House beat, that concern is mixed with another, more privately expressed emotion: relief at finally being rid of the Joe Biden press operation.

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