WASHINGTON — The Department of Defense has announced a new “annual media rotation program” that will see several major news outlets, including NBC News, removed from their Pentagon office spaces. The rotation program will make way for new outlets, with One America News Network, the New York Post, Breitbart News Network, and HuffPost taking their place.
NBC News, along with The New York Times, National Public Radio, and Politico, will vacate their dedicated workspaces on February 14, 2025. The news organizations received a memo outlining the change, but were not individually notified before being told they would have to leave.
“For over a half-century, the Pentagon Press Corps has benefited from working out of individual office spaces that provide coveted and open access to some of the Department’s top military and civilian leaders,” the memo said. “In order to broaden access to the limited space of the Correspondents’ Corridor to outlets that have not previously enjoyed the privilege and journalist value of working from physical office space in the Pentagon, beginning February 14, 2025, there will be a new Annual Media Rotation Program for those dedicated media spaces.”
The rotation program will give new outlets, including conservative leaning outlets, the opportunity to take up space at the Pentagon, while existing news organizations will no longer have the same level of access.