“Hi, I’m David McCraw, deputy general counsel at The New York Times Company, and I head our newsroom legal team. Last year, the Pentagon introduced an entire new set of rules to govern people who had press passes. The concept of a press pass is pretty simple. A reporter who has a press pass is allowed into the building, whether that’s the White House or the Pentagon or the Statehouse. The other thing that we ended up suing over was that the government, in this case, the Pentagon, essentially said, We get to decide when you lose your press pass.

Source: New York Times March 31, 2026 20:36 UTC