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White House Limits Newswires in Press Pool

The White House added a ‘new media’ slot to its press pool rotation. The Blaze, a conservative outlet, occupied it on Wednesday.
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White House Limits Newswires in Press Pool
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt takes questions during the daily briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House on Feb. 25, 2025. JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images
Jackson Richman
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The White House is limiting the number of newswires in the press pool as part of its takeover of the system.

Bloomberg was the only wire service in the Feb. 26 pool. There are usually two or more wire services in a pool, such as The Associated Press and Reuters.

Jackson Richman
Jackson Richman
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Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
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