How News Outlets Are Preparing for Karoline Leavitt’s White House Press Briefings

Steve Turnham, Scripps News Washington, D.C. bureau chief and managing editor:

Scripps News intends to cover the Trump administration briefings the same way we’re covering Biden’s, taking them live on the merits of the news of the day—which likely means often considering the policy changes that are anticipated—allowing the public to experience the important back-and-forth between the government and the press as directly as possible.

And, as we do with Biden, we will strive to bring clarity and context to what’s being discussed and inform our viewers if and when the administration misrepresents the facts as we understand them to be. We make no prior assumptions about how the Trump White House intends to conduct the briefings and so have no plan to do anything other than what we’ve always done, which is to take our role extremely seriously and hold ourselves to the highest professional standards.

Through Scripps News’ “Truth be Told” series, we have a team of reporters who specialize in quickly exposing falsehoods, whether they come from the White House or the president-elect’s political opponents, and expect those teams to be very busy.

James Rosen, Newsmax chief White House correspondent

The same way we would prepare for press briefings by any official under any administration: By knowing the relevant subject matters and emerging storylines, posing questions respectfully, and never losing sight of who our audience is. Hint: It’s not the other reporters in the briefing room.