
Melania’s office gives credential to CNN for NYC event despite her husband’s ban on the outlet
‘We’re going to see reporters try and get credentialed in other ways,’ CNN’s Brian Stelter reported
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‘We’re going to see reporters try and get credentialed in other ways,’ CNN’s Brian Stelter reported

The looming ownership of the network by David Ellison has caused anxiety in its newsroom for months.
CNN, MS Now, and Politico are suing the Trump administration after being barred from the White House. Other TV networks are boycotting the White House press pool in solidarity.

President Trump railed against the judge who has been assigned to a case seeking to challenge his ban on three media outlets from covering the White House and telegraphed he might be forced to let the journalists working for the trio back in the building. “They have drawn a great Judge, for them,” Trump said…
After Trump banned CNN and others from the White House, the rest of the TV networks suspended coverage in protest, leaving the president without audio on his own White House video feed.

Paramount on Monday agreed to settle an antitrust lawsuit filed by 12 states, the last big obstacle blocking the company's $81 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.

President Donald Trump showed off his new White House helicopter landing pad on Monday, attempting to brush aside a First Amendment firestorm.

As part of the settlement between Paramount and the state AGs, the news organizations will have a board of journalists monitoring their work, and disputes with management.

Donald Trump has vowed to appeal a judge’s ruling in the networks’ challenge of his ban on their access to the White House, even though a federal judge has yet to issue a ruling in the case. Shortly after CNN, Politico and MS NOW filed suit on Monday against Trump for his ban on their […]

ABC, CBS, Fox News and NBC decline to participate after presidential ban that prompted wide condemnation Major US TV news networks agreed to refuse to air coverage of Donald Trump’s White House after the administration banned certain media outlets including CNN from the grounds. The ban left CNN unable to fulfill its duties as Monday’s White House designated pool broadcaster. Continue reading...

The potential ownership of CBS News and CNN under one corporate owner has generated months of fear, anxiety and loathing at both networks, but the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery settlement tries to resolve some of the issues with the establishment of an editorial independence board. Per the terms of the consent decree, the board will establish […]

By banning CNN, the White House has thrown a staple of TV news coverage into disarray.

The $81 billion US dollar blockbuster deal will bring together two of Hollywood's oldest studios, key TV networks like CBS and CNN and streaming platforms HBO Max and Paramount+, as well as decades of libraries with titles ranging from Harry Potter to Top Gun.
Fox News, NBC, ABC and CBS withdrew from pool duty in protest of the ban, putting a cloud over coverage the US president’s trip to the United Nations in New York and meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
But government access to the president should not become a reward for favorable coverage. The job of the White House press corps isn't to make the president look good. It is to report what the president says and does.

The details of Paramount’s deal with 12 states settling their antitrust case — paving the way for its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, the biggest merger in Hollywood history — have been revealed. Among the top-line items: Paramount is agreeing to keep its operations in California and has committed to not sell the Paramount Studios […]

CNN, MS NOW, and Politico say the ban against them threatens press freedom and the right to independent journalism.
US President Donald Trump on Monday accused mainstream media outlets of being a “cancer” and national security threat in his latest attack on members of the press. It comes after Trump barred journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House, with the three media outlets saying Monday they would sue the Trump administration, calling the ban a “blatant violation” of the First Amendment.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended the White House’s ban of CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters on White House grounds Monday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” Bessent joined the financial news show just days after President Trump banned members of three news agencies from the White House as a result of what he deemed “fake news.”…

A trio of news outlets President Trump barred from covering the White House last week sued the administration on Monday arguing it is violating the First Amendment and harming their ability to share information about the government with the public. In the lawsuit, filed in district court in Washington, D.C., attorneys for CNN, MS NOW…