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Article: Conveying presidential news: the White House press corps covers the president.(SYMPOSIUM: THE PRESIDENT AND THE PRESS)(Essay)
- Article from:
- Presidential Studies Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 1, 2008
- Author:
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No matter who is president or who is doing the reporting, there is continuity in the press coverage a president receives and the news organizations with whom he regularly meets. When a new president occupies the Oval Office on January 20, 2009, he will have a waiting press corps already settled into its Press Room quarters. There will be people in place who covered his predecessors and established routines observed by media organizations concerning what news they want their reporters to gather and how they want them to do it. The more the new president and his staff understand about the workings of news organizations and the place of the White House in their reporting ...