In an email to members Monday, the WHCA board said the plans, confirmed by POLITICO, are a “wrong-headed effort.” ...

The White House plans to impose its own seating chart for reporters in the briefing room in coming weeks, taking over a function long managed by the reporters themselves through the White House ...

WHCA blasts White House’s ‘wrong-headed effort’ to take over briefing-room seating chart - ‘But if a White House’s goal instead is to receive ‘favorable coverage’ through easy questions, the American ...

The Trump administration said it might take over the seating chart for the press briefing room, something that for decades has been handled by a press association.

A change to the seating chart would amount to another encroachment ... questions and produce fair coverage,” the association’s board said in its note. The White House communications director ...