Covering Obama, with Christina Bellantoni

By CJP | December 16, 2008

Meet Christina Bellantoni, 29, the newest White House correspondent for “The Washington Times.” 

Bellantoni has been with the Times for five years, working her way up from covering Virginia politics to covering Congress to following the Obama campaign for nearly two years. Beginning in January, she’ll complete a team of three covering the Obama White House for the Times. 

She sat down with CJP recently to enlighten us about the presidential pool report, or for our purposes, the president-elect protective pool assigned to Barack Obama.  The pool process is a system of rotating reporters from different outlets to ensure that a print, radio, television and wire service reporter be with the president-elect at all times.  Bellantoni took her turn as “the scribbler” recently, and told us about reporting for the pool, covering Obama in 2008, and whether she thinks Obama will get a honeymoon from the press or whether the honeymoon’s already over…

To read Bellantoni’s stories every day, you can pick up a copy of the Times, or check out her blog on the WashingtonTimes.com.

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