After losing in court about The Associated Press getting access to the president, the White House announced a new rule for the media 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 manage how its actions are reported.

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

The White House is planning a new "pool coverage" rule for small areas like the Oval Office and Air Force One. They also said that press secretary Karoline Leavitt will decide who can ask her boss questions, according to people who have seen the plan.

By Tuesday evening, the White House had not yet furnished a response to inquiries for comment.

Last week, a federal judge said the White House unfairly punished the AP because they would not change the name of the Gulf of Mexico. This stopped their 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 groups.

The day after ignoring McFadden's decision and keeping the AP ban when Trump and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele spoke to reporters in the Oval Office, the White House shared a new plan with some journalists.

For many years, the White House Correspondents Association has been in charge of the press pool for events with limited space. Each time, they have included reporters from the news agencies AP, Reuters, and Bloomberg. Also, one print reporter was allowed, chosen in turn from over 30 news organizations.

The White House has announced it will categorize the three wire services alongside print reporters for two slots, implying that approximately three dozen journalists will alternate for these two regular positions. Wire services are generally responsible for reporting and producing stories distributed across various locations domestically and internationally.

Despite the changes, the White House stated that the press secretary would maintain daily authority in deciding the pool's makeup, adding that reporters would be admitted regardless of the news outlet's perspective.

In a statement, the Associated Press's Lauren Easton expressed profound disappointment that the White House, rather than reinstating the AP's access, opted for broader restrictions impacting all wire services.

"The wire services collectively represent thousands of news organisations across the U.S. and globally," stated Easton, an AP spokesperson. "Our comprehensive coverage is utilised by local newspapers and television stations in all 50 states to keep their communities well-informed."

Easton said Tuesday night that the administration's actions continue to ignore the basic American right to speak freely without the government controlling or punishing them.

The independent White House Correspondents' Association said the government wanting to control who reports on the president shows they are not willing to promise they won't keep favoring certain viewpoints.

Eugene Daniels, the association's president, said the government should not control the independent media that reports on it.

Under Leavitt, the White House has afforded increased access to news outlets aligned with Trump. This was evident on Tuesday, when the initial reporter Leavitt engaged with during a briefing posed two questions while simultaneously commending Trump's policy.

During the meeting in the Oval Office on Monday, Trump got angry when CNN's Kaitlan Collins asked him about a man sent back to a prison in El Salvador. At one point, he said CNN "hates our country." He made sure to show how her questions were different from an easier question from another reporter.

Even though there have been some disagreements, Trump has generally been more available to the media than the previous president, Joe Biden. He especially likes to talk in smaller places, like the Oval Office. This makes the new rule about access much more important.

The policy unveiled on Tuesday failed to take into account the access needs of photographers.

The argument started because the AP decided not to follow the president's order to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico. However, the AP style guide does mention that Trump wanted it to be called the Gulf of America. McFadden agreed with the AP's point that the government cannot punish the news group for what it says, because that is their right to free speech.

The White House has said that the press being able to see the president is a special favor, not something they have a right to, and that the White House should decide who gets this access. This is similar to how they choose who Trump talks to in private interviews. In court papers given in the last few days, his lawyers suggested that even after McFadden's decision, the time when the Associated Press could easily go to public presidential events was finished.

The government argued that no other news group in the US gets the same guaranteed access that the AP used to get. They said the AP might be used to being treated specially, but the Constitution doesn't say that special treatment has to last forever.

The administration has appealed McFadden's ruling and is set to argue in an appeals court on Thursday that the decision should be suspended until the substance of the case is definitively determined, possibly by the U.S. Supreme Court.

The administration has not restricted AP access to Leavitt's briefings over the past two months; however, it had prohibited White House-credentialed AP reporters from attending East Room events until Tuesday, when one was finally permitted entry to an event featuring the Navy football team.