Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Tuesday, January 17, 2016.
Obama grants interviews to local Chicago TV reporters for the first time in his presidency
The White House invited five Chicago TV reporters to Washington, D.C., for four-minute interviews with President Barack Obama for the first and last time in his eight-year presidency. The administration didn’t give an interview to Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinberg and instead let him provide local press pool reports during Obama’s farewell address visit to Chicago. “Any Chicago reporter who expected special access to the White House because of working here was disappointed,” Peter Slevin, biographer of First Lady Michelle Obama and an associate professor at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, told the Columbia Journalism Review. [Columbia Journalism Review]
