In a Feb. 5 article for the Columbia Journalism Review, CCLP Senior Fellow Barbara Starr cast a critical eye on the Trump administration’s changes to the Pentagon press corps.
Under the new Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, the Pentagon has swapped out longstanding correspondents from the New York Times, NBC, NPR, and Politico with correspondents from the liberal HuffPost and three reliably conservative outlets—Breitbart News, One America News Network, and the New York Post. Starr explains what these changes mean and why they should matter to the American public.
For Starr’s analysis, please read her article: “The Reshuffling of the Pentagon Press Corps Is a Warning.”
Before joining CCLP in 2023, Starr worked for over two decades as CNN’s Pentagon correspondent.