By Virginia Allen & Elise McCue, The Daily Signal | April 23, 2025
Americans changed their news consumption habits years ago, but the White House press briefing room did not reflect those changes—until now. Despite floundering ratings at CNN and MSNBC, and outlets like The Washington Post hemorrhaging readership and revenues, corporate media was long given deference across Washington, D.C., especially at the White House.
But now, with the Trump administration’s creation of the “new media chair,” and opening the press briefing room to podcasters and social media influencers, the White House briefing room is a better reflection of where American people actually consume their news.
Pew Research reports that 54% of Americans get their news from social media at least some of the time, and 27% of Americans said the same of podcasts.
While the legacy media might view the changes in the White House press briefing room as “MAGA,” it is likely a future Democrat administration would pull from President Donald Trump’s playbook. Granted, a Democrat White House is more likely, for example, to give “Call Her Daddy” podcast host Alex Cooper access to press briefings over conservative podcaster Tim Pool, but either way, nontraditional media are likely in the briefing room to stay.
Virginia Allen is a senior news producer for The Daily Signal and host of "The Daily Signal Podcast" and "Problematic Women."
Elise McCue is a digital associate for The Daily Signal.
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