Journalists gather to honor First Amendment at 2025 White House Correspondents' Dinner

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Trump counter-programmed the last dinner during his first term, holding a rally to compete with the event in 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic canceled the 2020 dinner.
49% : In response, the White House adopted a new press policy that gives the administration sole discretion over who gets to question Trump and sharply curtails the access of three news agencies, including AP, that serve billions of readers around the world.
47% : The stripped-down festivities Saturday night were a reflection of the somber tone in Washington at the beginning of President Donald Trump's second term, in which he has battled with the press on multiple fronts and wrested from the correspondents' association the power to decide which outlets have the most access to Trump.
45% : Collier Prize for State Government Accountability: AP for its series, "Prison to Plate: Profiting off America's Captive Workforce."
44% : Biden unleashes jabs at Trump during remarks at White House Correspondents' Dinner The association scrapped a scheduled appearance at this year's dinner by comedian Amber Ruffin after she referred to the new administration as "kind of a bunch of murderers" on a podcast last month.
42% : This year, Trump had just flown back from Pope Francis' funeral in Rome and had no events Saturday night.
27% : What is Voice of America and why Trump is dismantling the broadcaster A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction ordering the administration to stop blocking the AP from presidential events.
14% : The Award for Excellence in Presidential Coverage Under Deadline Pressure (Broadcast): Rachel Scott of ABC News, for her coverage of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.
8% : They included: The Award for Excellence in Presidential Coverage Under Deadline Pressure (Print): Aamer Madhani and Zeke Miller of the AP, for reporting on the White House altering its transcript to erase Biden calling Trump supporters "garbage."

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