Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Four billion people read Associated Press journalism daily.
A billion access Reuters content each day.
Bloomberg Media has 60 million video viewers monthly.
Yet the Trump administration is drastically curtailing these three major wire services’ access to White House press conferences.
For generations, a spot in the press pool at White House media events was reserved for wire services. This month, the Trump administration announced it was adding a second spot for a print journalist to pool, but the long-time reserved position will no longer be guaranteed a seat at each press conference.
The wire services can still apply to fill one of the designated seats.
The result is that newspapers, broadcasters and other media outlets across the world that depend on wire services for national and international news will no longer have access to coverage of White House press events. The AP alone serves more than 15,000 media outlets around the country, including The Bluefield daily Telegraph.
