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White House Barred Associated Press From Oval Office Event

White House Barred Associated Press From Oval Office Event

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Despite a court order, a reporter and photographer from The Associated Press were barred from an Oval Office news conference on Monday with President Donald Trump and his counterpart from El Salvador, Nayib Bukele. Last week’s federal court decision forbidding the Trump administration from punishing the AP for refusing to rename the Gulf of Mexico was to take effect Monday. The administration is appealing the decision and arguing with the news outlet over whether it needs to change anything until those appeals are exhausted. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. circuit set a Thursday hearing on Trump’s request that any changes be delayed while case is reviewed. The AP is fighting for more access as soon as possible. Later Monday, two AP photographers were admitted to an event honoring Ohio State’s championship football team on the more spacious South Lawn. A text reporter was turned away. Since mid-February, AP reporters and photographers have been blocked from attending events in the Oval Office, where President Donald Trump frequently addresses journalists, and on Air Force …

Reuters criticizes Trump’s ban of Associated Press reporters in Oval Office, Air Force One

Reuters criticizes Trump’s ban of Associated Press reporters in Oval Office, Air Force One

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Associated Press White House reporter Darlene Superville and AP photographer Ben Curtis are told by a U.S. President Donald Trump administration member that they have been denied from joining the White House press pool in West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., February 15, 2025.  Kevin Lamarque | Reuters Reuters on Saturday objected to the restrictions placed on media outlets by the White House, after the Trump administration earlier this week barred the Associated Press from key spaces such as the Oval Office and Air Force One. “Reuters stands with the Associated Press and other media organizations in objecting to coverage restrictions imposed by the White House on the AP, because of the AP’s independent editorial decisions,” read a statement from the Reuters Press Team on X. “Reuters believes that journalists should be free to report the news reliably, independently, and without harassment or harm, wherever they are, including in the United States,” it continued. The comment comes after the White House’s decision earlier this week to ban all AP reporters from the Oval Office and Air …

Talks proceed for vote naming House Press Gallery after Frederick Douglass

Talks proceed for vote naming House Press Gallery after Frederick Douglass

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The effort to name the House Press Gallery after abolitionist Frederick Douglass is getting a push forward as Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) reintroduces a renaming resolution Friday — Frederick Douglass Day — amid favorable talks with House GOP leadership to pass it in this Congress. The resolution would deem the third-floor offices with workspace for… Source link

Grimes Upset After Elon Musk Brings Son To Trump Press Conference

Grimes Upset After Elon Musk Brings Son To Trump Press Conference

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Grimes and Musk dated on-and-off for around four years, during which time they had three children. On Tuesday, Musk joined Donald Trump – of whom he has been a vocal supporter – for a press conference in the Oval Office, during which the US president introduced the eldest of the Tesla founder and Canadian singer’s children, X Æ A-Xii, to members of the press as a “great guy” and a “high IQ individual”. When one X user praised Grimes’ son for being “very polite” and “so cute” at the press conference, she responded: “He should not be in public like this. I did not see this, thank [you] for alerting me. But I’m glad he was polite. Sigh.” “It’s absurd that someone can be this cancelled for something their ex did before they even heard it happened,” she wrote on social media, upon discovering a fan intended to cover their Grimes tattoo in the wake of the Musk controversy. She added: “I am not him. I will not make a statement every time he does …

Justin Sun Allegedly Squashed Press About His Banana-Eating Stunt

Justin Sun Allegedly Squashed Press About His Banana-Eating Stunt

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Blockchain billionaire and art collector Justin Sun made global headlines in November after shelling out $6.2 million at Sotheby’s for Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian (2019), his infamous banana duct-taped to a wall. Sun then ate the banana at a buzzy press conference in Hong Kong. However, it seems Sun didn’t have a taste for all the press that come of it. According to Fortune, the blockchain billionaire and art collector pressured the crypto trade publication CoinDesk to retract a December 2 article by Callan Quinn that was critical of Sun’s press conference. The article was titled “I Watched Justin Sun Eat the World’s Most Expensive Banana. I Don’t Get It.” Related Articles “After Sun’s team complained about the tone of the piece, CoinDesk’s owners, the crypto exchange Bullish, demanded editorial staff remove it from the publication’s website, according to sources familiar with the matter,” Fortune reports, adding that former Wall Street Journal editor in chief Matt Murray left his position as chair of an editorial committee in December. The report states that the decision to remove the …

Press Gazette launches website registration wall

Press Gazette launches website registration wall

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Press Gazette has launched a registration wall to read our online content. This title is the most popular commercial online news outlet dedicated to covering the online publishing industry in the UK and and US, with 471,000 website visits per month according to Similarweb. This is the first time Press Gazette has opted to gate our online content and we are working with Flip-Pay as our tech provider. Flip-Pay already provides paywall and registration solutions to many of the world’s leading publishers. Press Gazette is now asking readers to share their email address, company and job title in order to read more than one article per month. Explaining the thinking behind the move, Press Gazette editor-in-chief Dominic Ponsford said: “All of Press Gazette’s revenue currently comes from our events which have been hugely successful over the last two years enabling us to expand with the launch of our USA Media Network event in the US, Future of Media Technology conference and awards in the UK and Media 100 series of networking breakfasts. “By asking readers …

French mass rape trial as seen by the foreign press: ‘Merci Gisèle’

French mass rape trial as seen by the foreign press: ‘Merci Gisèle’

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Gisele Pelicot speaks to the media as she leaves the Avignon courthouse on Thursday, September 5, 2024. LEWIS JOLY / AP Described as “a feminist figure,” “a heroine” and “an icon,” Gisèle Pelicot became a symbol in the French media and far beyond in just a few days. Her story was picked up by the American, European and even Indian press. The widespread recognition stemmed from her courageous decision to share her personal ordeal in an open-court trial, in the hope that “shame will change sides,” in the words of one of her lawyers. Read more Subscribers only Gisèle Pelicot, drugged by her husband so he and others could rape her, is a woman ‘still standing’ The New York Times highlighted the impact of her decision: “By opening the doors to the public, Ms. Pelicot has opened up the view not only onto her own collapsing life and the legal process around rape but also onto the regular, mundane, normal profiles of the accused men. And many women credit her with skewering the myth of …

Lady Gaga’s Joker Press Tour Is Officially Underway, And It’s Off To A Gloriously Chaotic Start

Lady Gaga’s Joker Press Tour Is Officially Underway, And It’s Off To A Gloriously Chaotic Start

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Well, Joker: Folie À Deux is now just a few short months away, and Gaga has given her first interview about the project. And folks… it’s a good ’un. Speaking to Empire, Gaga disclosed that she had to use her voice in a way like never before in order to perfect singing in character as Harley Quinn. “People know me by my stage name, Lady Gaga, right? That’s me as that performer,” she explained. “But that is not what this movie is. “I’m playing a character. So I worked a lot on the way that I sang to come from Lee and to not come from me as a performer.” Gaga added: “How do you take music and have it just be an extension of the dialogue, as opposed to breaking into song for no conceivable reason? It was unlike anything I’ve ever done before.” Strap in, people, this press tour is going to be a treat. Joker: Folie À Deux hits cinemas on Friday 4 October. Watch the trailer below: Source link

In Ukraine, Narrowing Press Freedoms Cause Growing Concern

In Ukraine, Narrowing Press Freedoms Cause Growing Concern

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A Ukrainian reporter who revealed that a state news agency tried to bar interviews with opposition politicians said he received a draft notification the next day. Ukraine’s domestic spy agency spied on staff members of an investigative news outlet through peepholes in their hotel rooms. The public broadcaster has decried what it says is political pressure on its reporting. Journalists and groups monitoring press freedoms are raising alarms over what they say are increasing restrictions and pressures on the media in Ukraine under the government of President Volodymyr Zelensky that go well beyond the country’s wartime needs. “It’s really disturbing,” said Oksana Romanyuk, director of the Institute of Mass Information, a nonprofit that monitors media freedoms. That is particularly true, she said, in a war where Ukraine is “fighting for democracy against the values of dictatorship embodied by Russia.” Before the Russian invasion of February 2022, and since its independence in 1991, Ukraine had a long track record of tolerating a pluralistic media environment, with multiple television channels aligned with opposition and pro-government parties, and …