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Previously, Lucas was downgraded from a full member of the White House Correspondents’ Association to an associate member because he didn’t have congressional press credentials. Lucas, who has covered the White House during the presidencies of Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and Biden, has watched both the press office and White House Correspondents’ Association change during his 14 years on the beat. That includes The Daily Signal, which is among the most-read conservative news outlets in America, according to Comscore data compiled by The Righting, a media company. Others who don’t meet the White House Press Office’s new criteria will simply lose access July 31. We strongly support the important role that members of the press play in covering the White… /7EbS9HDpIW- Simon Ateba July 11, 2023 Simon Ateba, the White House correspondent for Today News Africa who regularly spars with White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, is among those sounding the alarm.īREAKING: Following hit piece meant to prevent me from renewing my hard pass, the and office just sent me 'A WARNING LETTER.' Here it is: Officials also won’t disclose the number of hard passes currently in circulation.

The White House won’t say exactly how many others will lose access. Lucas isn’t the only reporter who will be left without a hard pass for the White House in two weeks. (Photo: Rob Bluey/The Daily Signal) Limiting Media Access Fred Lucas began covering the White House in 2009. Congressional galleries, governed by a committee of journalists, have their own rules.

The Supreme Court has a limited number of hard-pass holders-just 25 for the past term. It’s unclear when he’ll receive a response and unlikely he’ll be approved, if history is a guide. The Daily Signal, a media outlet founded by The Heritage Foundation in 2014, doesn’t have press credentials to cover Congress or the Supreme Court, although Lucas recently applied for both. House of Representatives, or Supreme Court.” (See the full email from the White House Press Office at the end of this story.) The rules require pass holders to first obtain “accreditation by a press gallery in either the U.S. Lucas, holder of a hard pass since 2009, no longer will be able to easily attend White House press briefings or access the sprawling Pennsylvania Avenue campus-as he has done for the past 14 years.Īt issue are new rules, announced in May, that limit the number of journalists who are eligible for a White House hard pass and give Biden’s press team greater power to expel journalists it doesn’t like. The White House Press Office will implement new rules July 31, when all “hard passes” expire. It’s the latest-and perhaps most brazen-attempt by President Joe Biden to limit media access to what he regularly calls “the People’s House.” Two weeks from now, The Daily Signal’s chief news correspondent, Fred Lucas, will lose his White House press credentials.

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