The shake-up to the briefing room came after President Donald Trump used independent media on the campaign trail to win his second term in White House.

The White House received more than 7,000 press pass applications after Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, revealed that “new media” would be welcomed to a briefing room in the West Wing. The influx of applications came just one day after Leavitt announced the president’s desire to engage with “the new media landscape,

New media” reporters and influencers cheered the White House’s announcement on Tuesday that it was expanding the press pool in the White House press briefing to podcasters, independent journalists, and social media influencers.