Veteran White House reporter April Ryan’s ‘Blacklash’

This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley. For nearly three decades, my guest today, journalist April Ryan, has reported from the White House briefing room. Covering five presidents from Bill Clinton to Donald Trump. She spent most of those years at American Urban Radio Networks, a black owned national network. Today, the Trump administration is in court with CNN, MSNow, and Politico after barring their reporters from the White House.

A federal judge has temporarily ordered their access restored. Ryan saw an earlier version of this. During Trump's first term, her exchanges with the president and his press secretaries turned personal, and several went viral. In twenty seventeen, she asked Sean Spicer, Trump's first press secretary, whether the Russia investigations were becoming a problem for the administration. Spicer then turned the question on her.

How does this administration Try to revamp its image. Two and a half months in, you've got the shade story today. You got other things going on. You've got Russia, you've got You got wire camp and you've got to get it. No, we don't have that. You you you I know. No no I I get it, but you keep a I I've said it from

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