After losing in court about The Associated Press being able to access the president, the White House announced a new media rule on Tuesday. This rule greatly limits how news agencies that provide information to media around the world can access Donald Trump. This is the newest effort by the new government to control how its actions are reported.

This action would stop the AP and other news agencies that reach billions of readers through many news organizations. This happens after a judge decided the White House had broken the organization's right to free speech by banning it because it did not agree with the organization's choice not to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico.

According to people who have seen the plan, the White House is creating a new rule for press coverage in small areas like the Oval Office and Air Force One. They also said that press secretary Karoline Leavitt will finally decide which reporters can ask her boss questions.

The White House offered no immediate response to inquiries for comment late Tuesday.

A federal judge recently decided that the White House was wrong to punish the Associated Press because it would not change the name of the Gulf of Mexico. The White House had stopped the AP's reporters and photographers from covering events. U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden ordered the government to treat the AP the same way it treats other news organizations.

The day after going against McFadden's decision and keeping the AP ban when Trump and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele met with reporters, the White House shared information about a new policy with certain journalists.

For an extended period, the White House Correspondents Association has managed the pool for events with restricted access, consistently including reporters from the wire services AP, Reuters and Bloomberg, with one print reporter also permitted, chosen in rotation from a pool of over 30 news organisations.

The White House has announced that it will group the three wire services with print journalists for two positions. This means about 36 reporters will take turns filling these two regular spots. Wire services usually report and write stories that are shared in many places across the country and around the world.

Despite the rotation, the White House stated that Trump's press secretary would maintain daily authority to decide the composition of the pool, and the updated policy stipulates that reporters will be granted access regardless of an outlet's substantive viewpoint.

In a statement, Lauren Easton of the AP conveyed their profound disappointment that the White House, instead of reinstating the AP's access, opted for restrictions impacting all wire services.

Easton, a spokeswoman for the Associated Press, stated that the wire services collectively represent numerous news organizations throughout the United States and globally, and that their coverage is utilized by local media outlets across all 50 states to keep their communities informed.

Easton said on Tuesday evening that the administration's actions continue to ignore the basic American right to speak without government control or punishment.

The independent White House Correspondents' Association said the government's decision to keep control over who reports on the president shows it is not willing to promise that it would stop treating people unfairly based on their views.

"The government ought not to have sway over the independent media reporting on its activities," stated Eugene Daniels, the association's president.

Under Leavitt, the White House has increased access for news outlets perceived as favourable to Trump, a shift evident on Tuesday when the first reporter Leavitt called upon during a briefing interjected two questions with commendations for Trump's policies.

During the meeting on Monday in the Oval Office, Trump got angry when CNN's Kaitlan Collins asked about a man sent back to a prison in El Salvador. At one point, he said CNN 'hates our country.' He then pointed out how her questions were difficult compared to an easier one from another reporter.

Even though there are sometimes arguments, Trump lets the media talk to him more easily than the president before him, Joe Biden. He likes to talk in small places, especially the Oval Office. This makes the new rules about who can access him even more important.

The new rule that started on Tuesday didn't talk about how photographers could get in. Before that, in a court meeting about the AP's problem, the main White House photographer for the news agency, Evan Vucci, and writer Zeke Miller explained how the ban has harmed the work of a news company that is set up to quickly send news and pictures to its customers.

The disagreement started because AP decided not to follow the president's order to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico, even though AP style mentions that Trump wants it to be called the Gulf of America. McFadden agreed with AP's point that the government cannot punish the news organization for what it says – for using its right to speak freely.

The White House says that journalists being able to see the president is a special permission, not a basic right, and they should decide who gets it, just like they choose who Mr. Trump talks to in private interviews. In court papers from last weekend, his lawyers suggested that even with McFadden's decision, the Associated Press would no longer have easy access to public presidential events.

The administration argued that no other news group in the United States gets the same guaranteed access that the AP used to have. They said the AP might be used to its special position, but the Constitution doesn't say that position has to last forever.

The government has questioned McFadden's decision and will be in an appeals court on Thursday. They will argue that the decision should be stopped until the main points of the case are completely decided, maybe by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The administration has not limited the Associated Press's access to Leavitt's briefings in the last two months. However, they did stop AP reporters with White House credentials from going to events in the East Room until Tuesday. On Tuesday, one reporter was allowed to attend an event with the Navy football team.