So the ability to cover the White House is part of the metrics.” Legacy outlets will reportedly still have a place in the briefing room, but some may experience what Axios describes as diminished visibility,

The White House on Monday opted to nix a formal press conference that would have had President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu taking questions from a wider swath of reporters, choosing instead for the two leaders to face the small group of media in the Oval Office.

For decades, a reporter for The Associated Press would have first dibs to question the White House press secretary during the daily