US EditionHow Reporting From Inside Pentagon Helped Reveal Neglect Toward Troops, Veterans
Only 15 of more than 100 Pentagon reporters accepted new media restrictions requiring approval for classified information requests, leading to a mass walkout by major news outlets.
- On Wednesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a 21-page media policy banning reporters from soliciting information without Pentagon authorization, but only 15 credentialed journalists signed it as many handed in badges.
- The Pentagon Press Association denounced Hegseth's policy, which gave credentialed journalists until Tuesday evening to acknowledge rules barring solicitation of classified information without Pentagon approval.
- Signatories included two staffers from One America News, one from The Federalist and one from The Epoch Times, alongside Turkish state-run Anadolu Agency, Ak_am, The Australian, AWPS News, the India Globe and USA Journal Korea.
- By Thursday it became clear which journalists remained credentialed inside the Pentagon after many organizations declined to comply and left their desks; the remaining 11 reporters included freelancers for foreign-based organizations and a few little-known independent sites.
- The Department of War will announce the next generation of the Pentagon press corps soon, while The Federalist CEO Sean Davis and Mollie Hemingway defended the rules, finding `zero new restrictions`.
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News Stories Show That Reporters May Have Left the Pentagon, but They Haven’t Stopped Working
Two days after dozens of journalists left their desks at the Pentagon behind rather than agree to government-imposed rules on how they report about the U.S. military, it’s apparent they haven’t stopped working.
How reporting from inside Pentagon helped reveal neglect toward troops, veterans
The Pentagon press corps has left the building, with the vast majority of the reporters turning in their credentials rather than agree to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s policy cracking down on the solicitation or publication of information not authorized by the government for public release. The reporters, including those at NBC News, will continue to cover the Defense Department from outside its iconic Northern Virginia headquarters. Hegseth …
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