Fishbowl DC’s Damon Marx tells us CNN is hosting a new event to add to the WHC weekend festivities. For those not lucky enough to be on the list, they have a hangover theme…
Archives for March 2015
Press Uncuffed
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“We’re journalism students at the University of Maryland working with our professor – Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Dana Priest – to raise money to free imprisoned journalists around the world by selling bracelets bearing their names. Press Uncuffed works in partnership with the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an independent, nonprofit organization that advocates for journalists in danger.”
Colleen McCain Nelson to serve as first-ever WHCA Print Pool Chair
Christi Parsons of L.A. Times/Chicago Tribune and president of the White House Correspondents’ Association in an email to members: “Colleen McCain Nelson [of the Wall Street Journal], the wonder volunteer who has been running our Magazine Seat rotation so ably for the last few months, has agreed to serve as our first-ever Print Pool Chair. … Vice President Carol Lee and I agree that she is the perfect person to pioneer this position for the Print Pools. You may have heard of the parallel titles in the TV and Radio pools. The Pool Chair’s role … include[s] … arbitrating policy decisions in consultation with the full pool and the WHCA board …
“[T]he Pool Chair … rotates quarterly. That helps the TV and Radio folks share the workload, but also gives everyone an inside look at how the system works. … People … have more faith in a system that they help to run. The pools belong to the members, not to the White House. That is an important principle at stake … Mike Shear of the New York Times has agreed to take over the Magazine rotation duties.”
New White House Briefing Room seating chart
The White House Briefing Room seating chart was released Tuesday by the White House Correspondents’ Association. USA Today White House reporter, Gregory Korte, created this visualization of the room.
“The White House Correspondents’ Association recently made adjustments to the briefing seating chart, promoting some news organizations and instituting seat-sharing arrangements for others. The calculus that goes into the assignments is part tenure, part audience and part commitment to the White House beat. News organizations that don’t show up every day will find another reporter sitting in its seat; miss enough briefings and the seat may be lost permanently.”
One of the biggest updates: “Newcomers Buzzfeed and Al Jazeera get partial seats through seat-sharing arrangements with Scripps-Howard News Service and the Chicago Sun-Times, respectively.”
Read more via USA Today: Here’s the new White House briefing room seating chart
Madonna goes to Washington?
“This week, Us Weekly scored something of a coup, nabbing Madonna – whose Rebel Heart is now on sale – for the “25 Things You Don’t Know About Me” feature, and she did not disappoint. But perhaps the most revelatory of all the “things” was No. 7: “The person I most want to meet is President Obama. When the heck am I going to meet him? He just needs to invite me to the White House already. He probably thinks I’m too shocking to be there. I’m serious. If I was a little bit more demure…or if I was just married to Jay Z. Hey, if Jay would only take me as his second wife, then I’d score an invitation.”
Read more via vanityfair.com: Madonna Says She’d Be Invited to the White House if She Were “Married to Jay Z”
MSNBC’s Matt Saal to Bloomberg TV
“Matt Saal, the creator and executive producer of PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton, is leaving MSNBC for a new role at Bloomberg TV. Saal will serve as an EP at Bloomberg after 12 years with MSNBC.”
Read more via adweek.com: ‘PoliticsNation’ EP Matt Saal Leaving MSNBC for Bloomberg
Neil deGrasse to host Nat Geo Latenight Series
Late night’s newest host isn’t James Corden on CBS’ The Late Late Show; it’s Neil deGrasse Tyson on Nat Geo.
Read more via variety.com: Nat Geo Latenight Series Hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson To Launch April 20
Box Hires Fed Vet Sonny Hashmi
“Sonny Hashmi, the well-respected chief information officer of the General Services Administration, confirmed last week that he would step down after nearly a year in the position to join the private sector. Now we know where he’s heading: Box.”
Read more via washingtonpost.com: Box hires Sonny Hashmi, former CIO of the GSA
America’s two most famous “veeps” take part in FLOTUS #GimmeFive challenge
“On Wednesday, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who stars as former vice president and now President Selina Meyer on HBO’s “Veep,” accepted real Vice President Joe Biden’s challenge in observance of the fifth anniversary of the first lady’s Let’s Move campaign.”
Read more via politico.com: Two ‘veeps’, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Joe Biden, take Michelle Obama’s challenge
Gawker to publish White House pool reports
“Adam Pash, the director of Gawker Media’s Editorial Labs, has built a tool that will automatically publish pool reports to a site we are calling Public Pool as soon as the emails go out from the White House. He’s also built a Twitter account that will automatically send out updates when new reports go up.”
Read more: Here Are All the White House Pool Reports
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