NPC Newsmaker News Conference on White House Communications Strategy to Be Held Jan. 12
Posted on: Thursday, 5 January 2006, 09:00 CST
News Advisory:
WHAT: National Press Club "Newsmaker" News Conference
White House communications strategy -- press briefings and press gaggles: Are they an effective communications and news venue?
WHEN: Thursday, Jan. 12, 6 p.m.
WHERE: National Press Club, National Press Building (13th Floor), 14th & F Streets NW, Washington, D.C.
WHO: Guest panelists: Dr. Martha Joynt Kumar, political science professor at Towson University and author of Portraying the President: The White House and the News Media; Mike McCurry, former White House press secretary (Clinton administration); Helen Thomas, White House columnist (Hearst News); Alexis Simendinger, White House correspondent (National Journal). Invited: White House spokesperson (Bush administration) b TBD.
DETAILS: The White House holds daily press briefings and morning press gaggles. Although both are information sessions, there are important differences in their format, their audiences, and their uses to reporters and officials.
How effective are the daily press briefings and morning press gaggles as news and presidential communications venues? Have these press sessions changed over the years as a result of the 24-hour news cycle? Are press briefings unnecessarily confrontational or is the adversarial relationship between the White House and reporters a natural and necessary part of the information gathering process in a free society?
Reservation Line: 202-662-7501
Contact: Paula Cruickshank, 202-842-7344
http://www.usnewswire.com
Source: U.S. Newswire
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