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White House Access
BOB SCHIEFFER: I’m Bob Schieffer.
H. ANDREW SCHWARTZ: And I’m Andrew Schwartz.
MR. SCHIEFFER: And these are conversations about the news. We’re in the midst of a communications revolution. We have access to more information than any people in history. But are we more informed, or just overwhelmed by so much information we can’t process it?
MR. SCHWARTZ: Our podcast is a collaboration of the Bob Schieffer College of Communication at TCU and the CSIS in Washington.
MR. SCHIEFFER: In this first year of Donald Trump’s presidency, we’re talking to the reporters who are covering the president the closest, the White House press corps.
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MR. SCHWARTZ: This podcast was recorded just after President Trump’s first 100 days in office. Access to the president and his staff is always an issue to contend with for White House reporters. We spoke with Reuters’ Jeff Mason at a time when access was better than it is currently. But if we’ve learned anything about this White House, it’s that access is constantly changing. We hope you enjoy this fascinating conversation with Reuters’ Jeff Mason.
MR. SCHIEFFER: Our guest this time is Jeff Mason, who is the correspondent for the Reuters news agency at the White House, and has been there since 2009. Jeff, sin
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Reporters Pursue the ‘Story of a Generation’
For years, President Trump had generally avoided formal press briefings, preferring to comment via Twitter and in impromptu sessions with reporters on the White House lawn. But in mid-March, with the coronavirus spreading across the country and killing thousands each day, he began holding daily 5 p.m. briefings.
Jeff Mason
Jeff Mason, a White House correspondent for Reuters, was in the briefing room along with about 14 other reporters, their ranks reduced from the usual 49 in an attempt at social distancing. An instructor for Georgetown University’s Master's in Journalism program, Mason had spoken in 2018 about what a privilege it was to work at the White House and have “a front seat to history.”
That was still true, of course; but the atmosphere had changed.
“It’s certainly scary,” Mason said. “It is scary to see so many people are dying—it’s devastating. And, of course, the economic devastation is also enormous. So it’s just very, very sad, and very difficult to cover.”
This story follows four reporters who are covering the pandemic, all of whom have connections to Georgetown’s graduate Journalism program. Mason and two of his colleagues, Jack Gillum of ProPublica and Ryan Teague Beckwith of Bloomberg Poli
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