White House Correspondents’ Association President Tamara Keith On This Year’s Dinner, Tumult In The News Business & The Case For More Joe Biden Press Conferences: Q&A
deadline.comThe White House Correspondents’ Association dinner will draw loads of attention for the celebrities who show, the jokes that Joe Biden tells and the shtick that Roy Wood Jr.
uses in his routine. What often gets lost is the year-round role of the WHCA itself, including pressing for access to the president and promoting the First Amendment.
This year, there also will be reference to Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal journalist jailed in Russia, and Austin Tice, the freelance reporter kidnapped in Syria in 2012.
Deadline recently talked with Tamara Keith, the NPR White House correspondent who is the president of the WHCA this year, about the Biden administration and the press, as well as what she plans to tell the dinner crowd at a time of economic distress in the media business.
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