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Jay Carney Leaves White House: What's Next?

June 18, 2014 By Tammy Haddad

Jay Carney and Matthew Morrison

White House Correspondents and the C-SPAN audience enjoyed Jay Carney’s last White House briefing before he re-enters the private sector.

Mr. Carney has options from network TV news divisions to cablers and websites. The top pr firms have been circling him for a while. With unlimited options Carney will definitely be the manager for son Hugo’s band.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Jay Carney, White House Briefing Room

AP's Ben Feller Moves Up Front

August 11, 2010 By jlichman

Mid-week announcements are the best when it concerns White House Press Pools.

So without further ado, as Fishbowl DC informs us, Ben Feller is the AP’s new White House Correspondent. Feller covered education for the news organization from 2003 to 2006, switching to the White House since then.

This comes after the AP was awarded Helen Thomas’ seat last week. The official memo is below:

The Memo from Fishbowl after the jump

Filed Under: Correspondents, DC Tagged With: AP, Ben Feller, Media, White House Briefing Room, White House Correspondents Association

The Ultimate Spin Room

May 14, 2009 By dadler

White House Press Briefing Room Trivia Break

Before a pool was installed for FDR, the Press Briefing Room space was a laundry room, shown here in 1909. 

Before it was a swimming pool, the present day "Brady Press Briefing Room" was the White House laundry. This was the original spin room.

Filed Under: White House History Tagged With: Spin Room, White House Briefing Room

ABC Reporter Suggests Televised WH Briefings may be Bad for Journalism

May 4, 2009 By Tammy Haddad

Jake Tapper and Julie Mason talk about the daily WH press briefing from whcinsider on Vimeo.

In part 3 of our interview with The Examiner’s Julie Mason and ABC News’ Jake Tapper – a former print reporter for Salon.com – tell WHCInsider that televising the White House briefing may be bad for journalism.

“An argument can be made while televising the briefing, while wonderful in the interest of transparency, actually hurts the interest of journalism being committed,” said Tapper. “It becomes a show,” added Mason. “And often time’s reporters are judged on the questions they ask during the briefing, when it’s such a tiny part of what we do. It sort of becomes counterproductive.”

Most of the White House correspondents’ work is done outside the regular press briefings … and both Tapper and Mason joked that they had “occasionally fettered access” outside the scheduled briefings.

Go behind the scenes at the White House briefing room here.

Filed Under: Correspondents, Media Strategy, White House Staff Tagged With: ABC New, Jake Tapper, Julie Mason, Salon.com, The Examiner, White House Briefing Room, White House correspondents

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Exploring “behind the scenes” of the most powerful reporters and editors in the world, the Washington press corps. We track the White House Correspondents’ weekend and all the activities around it from journalists and media companies to the White House and politicos. Tammy Haddad is Co-Founder and Editor-In-Chief of WHC Insider and she hosts the Washington Insider podcast.

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