it was invigorated. we ll talk to the journalists who helped bring about one of the most remarkable years of american reporting in memory covering one of the most hostile administrations in american history. we begin with national security contributor michael schmidt, franchesca chambers. franchesca, let me start with you. what is that dynamic like? it seems different than previous briefing rooms to me watching it but you re in that room, what s it like? a sharp shift that we ve seen here in the briefing room behind the scenes is that previously you would always count on the associated press to be called in in this briefing room first and you could count on there being a policy question and news of the day first and that s something that this administration has done away with so that s why you ll see them going to other outlets all across the room and you never know if you re going to be the first one to get called on so you have to be
and what are the main things for the media to steer away from that we ve proven do not work in covering donald trump? well, i think the first thing is to stop chasing access. access to misinformation and confusion is not necessarily going to help the press. i think a lot of investment needs to be put into outside-in reporting, rather than inside-out in this sense. start from the rim of the government, from the agencies, from the civil servants, from the people on the margins and work towards the center rather than the reverse. in foreign policy, it might be trying to get information from other governments, rather than our own, because our own is not going to help you much. so maybe i m being a little facetious here. but maybe you send the interns to the briefing rooms and the experienced reporters outside, because most of what s going to