{"id":228105,"date":"2025-10-16T03:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/228105\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T03:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:40:08","slug":"major-us-news-outlets-vacate-offices-at-pentagon-over-new-reporting-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/228105\/","title":{"rendered":"Major US news outlets vacate offices at Pentagon over new reporting restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Dozens of journalists who cover the US Defence Department vacated their offices in the Pentagon and returned their credentials on Wednesday as new restrictions on press access took effect.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Defence Department had set a Tuesday deadline for news outlets to either sign a new Pentagon access policy or lose access to press credentials and Pentagon workspaces.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At least 30 news organisations, including Reuters, declined to sign the new policy, citing a threat to press freedoms and their ability to conduct independent newsgathering on the world\u2019s most powerful military.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The policy required journalists to acknowledge new rules on press access, including that they could be branded security risks and have their Pentagon press badges revoked if they ask department employees to disclose classified and some types of unclassified information.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Members of the press leaving the Pentagon. Photo: AP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/8cd0f4dc-83e6-40e1-87b4-f01d3099f2c2_741ac6ff.jpg\" title=\"Members of the press leaving the Pentagon. Photo: AP\"\/>Members of the press leaving the Pentagon. Photo: AP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Pentagon Press Association, which represents more than 100 news organisations, including Reuters, said in a statement that Wednesday was \u201ca dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening US commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of journalists who cover the US Defence Department vacated their offices in the Pentagon and returned their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,2724,127529,11320,31633,127531,3,127532,5472,127534,1572,127533,38575,12954,127530,21,19,22,20,25,6131,127528,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-228105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-associated-press","10":"tag-defence-news","11":"tag-fox-news","12":"tag-jj-green","13":"tag-national-security-correspondent","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-one-america-news-network","16":"tag-pentagon","17":"tag-pentagon-press-association","18":"tag-pete-hegseth","19":"tag-press-access","20":"tag-reuters","21":"tag-sean-parnell","22":"tag-stephen-losey","23":"tag-united-states","24":"tag-united-states-of-america","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","27":"tag-us","28":"tag-us-air-force","29":"tag-us-defence-department","30":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}