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Exclusive: Journalists refuse to sign Pentagon media pledge

A map from the Pentagon’s internal guidance shows areas (in yellow) where credentialed journalists are now allowed without an escort. Under the new policy, press access is limited primarily to select corridors on the 1st and 2nd floors, the Center Courtyard, and the Food Court. Previously, reporters could move unescorted throughout much of the building. Journalists are now prohibited from being on the 3rd, 4th, 5th, Basement, or Mezzanine levels without an escort.
A map from the Pentagon’s internal guidance shows areas (in yellow) where credentialed journalists are now allowed without an escort. Under the new policy, press access is limited primarily to select corridors on the 1st and 2nd floors, the Center Courtyard, and the Food Court. Previously, reporters could move unescorted throughout much of the building. Journalists are now prohibited from being on the 3rd, 4th, 5th, Basement, or Mezzanine levels without an escort.

Two journalists with longstanding Pentagon access have become the first known reporters to publicly reject the Department of War’s new media pledge, telling me they will not sign it, a significant escalation in response to a policy that, until now, had been widely criticized but not openly defied. An editor at a D.C.-based trade publication, […]