US EditionOAN Pentagon Reporter Fired After Criticizing Hegseth: Report
- Gabrielle Cuccia, a Pentagon reporter for conservative One America News Network, lost her job in 2025 after publicly criticizing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a Trump appointee.
- Hegseth evicted several news outlets from Pentagon workspaces earlier that year and favored friendly media, causing tensions around press freedom and access.
- Cuccia wrote a Substack post titled 'The Secretary of Defense-ive' three days after Hegseth issued rules restricting reporters’ movement inside the Pentagon, exposing internal disagreements.
- Cuccia said, "I was out of a job," after losing her credentials to enter the Pentagon just days after posting her critical remarks, while the Pentagon Press Association condemned the limitations as an attack on press freedom.
- The incident highlights difficulties for openly partisan reporters like Cuccia in maintaining access and the fraught balance between loyalty, criticism, and journalistic accountability within aligned media outlets.
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Reporter says she was fired from Trump-friendly outlet after criticizing Hegseth
Gabrielle Cuccia, self-described "MAGA girl" and former chief Pentagon correspondent for conservative outlet One America News Network, said she was fired after criticizing Pete Hegseth on Substack.
A Pentagon reporter expressed her opinion online. Days later, she was out of a job.
Assigned to cover the Pentagon for the conservative outlet One America News Network, Gabrielle Cuccia didn’t pretend to be an unbiased reporter. She describes herself as “a MAGA girl” who is unapologetically defiant in her support of President Donald Trump. Yet days after publicly criticizing a Trump appointee, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Cuccia found herself out of a job. In taking to Substack last week to express a personal opinion about a…
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OAN's Pentagon reporter learns the limits of expressing her own opinion
Gabrielle Cuccia calls herself a “MAGA girl” who made no secret of her support for President Donald Trump, even as she got a job covering the Pentagon for the One America News Network.
OAN's Pentagon Reporter Learns the Limits of Expressing Her Own Opinion
Assigned to cover the Pentagon for the conservative outlet One America News Network, Gabrielle Cuccia didn't pretend to be an unbiased reporter. She describes herself as “a MAGA girl” who is unapologetically defiant in her support of President Donald Trump.
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