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Never one to hold back, the president has also had harsh words for her spouse, Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, a moderate Republican congressman. \u201cHer husband votes against me all the time,\u201d Trump once said. \u201cCan you imagine?\u201dThe double-barreled attacks don\u2019t bother Heinrich, who as president of the White House Correspondents Assn. is leading the fight against Trump\u2019s ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico. When Trump delivered his insult at the WHCA\u2019s dinner in July, Heinrich just shrugged and smiled.\u201cYou don\u2019t get into journalism to be well liked by the subject that you\u2019re covering,\u201d Heinrich said in a recent phone interview. \u201cAs long as I\u2019m doing my job, which is to get the story and tell it fairly and fully, the rest of it is not really my business to care about. It\u2019s probably not the last time I\u2019ll upset him. The president still takes my calls.\u201dHeinrich\u2019s durability is being put to the test as she delivers the public and private messaging on the latest battle with the White House over press freedom. Trump banned the three outlets from the White House grounds due to what he believes is their constant negative coverage. A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order to block the move, calling it viewpoint discrimination and a violation of the outlets\u2019 1st Amendment rights. But the administration continues to prevent CNN from serving in the press pool that follows the president at all times. More court hearings are ahead.Over the last 10 days, Heinrich has issued public statements condemning the ban, monitored the legal proceedings and held back channel conversations with the White House in an effort to get Trump\u2019s decision reversed. It\u2019s a second job on top of covering the president and co-hosting a weekend program \u201cThe Sunday Briefing.\u201dExecutives and journalists say privately that it\u2019s helpful to have someone from a Trump-friendly outlet lead the organization to restore the press credentials of outlets the president views as hostile. The WHCA exists to maintain and facilitate access to the White House for its 900 members across 250 news organizations.But for Heinrich, it\u2019s logical that 1st Amendment arguments transcend any political leanings of any media outlet. If Trump\u2019s ban stands, conservative news organizations could find themselves facing similar restrictions the next time a Democrat is in the Oval Office.\u201cWhen you empower the president to select who is allowed to ask them questions, it shrinks the room,\u201d Heinrich said. \u201cIt shrinks the perspective and it hands over that same authority to the next administration, who will surround themselves with only voices that approve of or are supportive or friendly toward what they\u2019re doing.\u201dEugene Daniels, a co-host at the progressive-leaning MS NOW and a former White House Correspondents Assn. president, said the organization\u2019s members from Fox News and the further right-leaning Newsmax were always supportive of 1st Amendment and press access issues during his tenure.\u201cA lot of our news organizations understand intrinsically that at some point the shoe could be on the other foot,\u201d Daniels said. \u201cThe solidarity matters.\u201dDaniels has also known Heinrich since the two worked together years ago at a TV station in Colorado Springs, Colo., and believes she is well-equipped to push the WHCA\u2019s cause.\u201cShe\u2019s clear eyed about the role of White House correspondents in covering any president,\u201d he said. \u201cShe is very tough and always has been since we\u2019ve met. She stands 10 toes down when it comes to what\u2019s right.\u201dHeinrich\u2019s respect for journalistic principles has even extended to her personal life. When Fitzpatrick first asked her out on a date five years ago, he had to wait several weeks for an answer. Heinrich checked with her Fox News bosses to see if dating an elected official was a conflict even though she was no longer assigned to covering congress.\u201cHe was very patient,\u201d Heinrich said. The couple was married at New York\u2019s St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral in June.Heinrich is among the correspondents at Fox News \u2014 which this week will mark 30 years on the air \u2014 whose reporting doesn\u2019t adhere to the leanings of its opinion hosts and commentators. In 2020, Heinrich reported on Trump\u2019s false claims of voter fraud in the election he lost to Joe Biden, while commentators, hosts and guests on the network continued to raise doubts about the results. Her reporting angered hosts such as Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, who were concerned that her work was alienating viewers loyal to the president.Carlson called on Fox News Media Chief Executive Suzanne Scott to fire Heinrich in a text that came to light three years later when Dominion Voting System filed its defamation suit against the network. Dominion claimed Fox News deliberately aired false statements about the company\u2019s role in the 2020 election, settling the suit for $787 million.But Heinrich said she was unaware of the conversations before they were revealed in a legal brief in February 2023. (Carlson was fired from Fox News two months later.) She has been promoted twice since 2020.\u201cMy bosses never interfered with my reporting,\u201d she said.Heinrich, 37, studied international affairs at George Washington University and wanted to pursue a career in the State Department before internships at MSNBC and WRC-TV in Washington led her to journalism. After working at several local TV stations she became a Fox News correspondent in New York in 2018. She covered Congress and the 2020 presidential campaign before moving to the White House beat in 2021.Heinrich was raised in New England in what she describes as a politically diverse family. Her parents divorced when she was young, and she split her time between a conservative father in New Hampshire, a politically moderate mother in Maine and a Bernie Sanders-supporting stepfather from Vermont. She believes her upbringing was excellent training for her profession.\u201cIt was \u2018Live Free or Die\u2019 and socialism all under two roofs but one family,\u201d she said. \u201cWe have developed a really keen ability to listen. 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(The event was cut short and rescheduled this year after a gunman attempted to enter the ballroom at the Washington Hilton.)Heinrich said even with the president\u2019s open hostility toward the press, he will be welcomed to the event in 2027.\u201cWe have invited the president every single year for the last 115 years and that\u2019s not going to change just because of President Trump,\u201d Heinrich said. \u201cWe uphold laws, norms, and traditions around here and we intend to keep it that way.\u201d More to Read" ], "output": "readability", "pwd": "/data/archive/1791215123.282037", "schema": "ArchiveResult", "start_ts": "2026-10-05T16:16:43.328561+00:00", "status": "succeeded" } ], "screenshot": [], "singlefile": [], "title": [ { "cmd": [ "curl", "--silent", "--location", "--compressed", "--max-time", "120", "--user-agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 ArchiveBox/0.7.4 (+https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/) curl/curl 8.14.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)", "https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2026-10-05/meet-fox-news-correspondent-leading-fight-for-press-freedom-at-white-house" ], "cmd_version": "curl 8.14.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)", "end_ts": "2026-10-05T16:16:43.319577+00:00", "index_texts": null, "output": "Meet the Fox News correspondent leading the fight for press freedom at the White House - Los Angeles Times", "pwd": "/data/archive/1791215123.282037", "schema": "ArchiveResult", "start_ts": "2026-10-05T16:16:43.247152+00:00", "status": "succeeded" } ], "wget": [ { "cmd": [ "wget", "--no-verbose", "--adjust-extension", "--convert-links", "--force-directories", "--span-hosts", "--no-parent", "-e", "robots=off", "--reject=js,mjs,woff,woff2,ttf,otf,eot,mp4,m4v,mov,webm,ogv,mkv,avi,flv", "--timeout=120", "--restrict-file-names=windows", "--page-requisites", "--user-agent=Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 ArchiveBox/0.7.4 (+https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/) wget/GNU Wget 1.21.3", "--compression=auto", "--timestamping", "https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2026-10-05/meet-fox-news-correspondent-leading-fight-for-press-freedom-at-white-house" ], "cmd_version": "GNU Wget 1.21.3", "end_ts": "2026-10-05T16:16:43.235497+00:00", "index_texts": null, "output": "www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2026-10-05/meet-fox-news-correspondent-leading-fight-for-press-freedom-at-white-house.html", "pwd": "/data/archive/1791215123.282037", "schema": "ArchiveResult", "start_ts": "2026-10-05T16:16:31.270527+00:00", "status": "succeeded" } ] }, "icons": null, "is_archived": true, "is_static": false, "latest": { "archive_org": null, "dom": null, "favicon": "favicon.ico", "git": null, "media": null, "pdf": null, "screenshot": null, "singlefile": null, "title": "Meet the Fox News correspondent leading the fight for press freedom at the White House - Los Angeles Times", "warc": null, "wget": "www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2026-10-05/meet-fox-news-correspondent-leading-fight-for-press-freedom-at-white-house.html" }, "link_dir": "/data/archive/1791215123.282037", "newest_archive_date": "2026-10-05T16:16:45.981604+00:00", "num_failures": 0, "num_outputs": 6, "oldest_archive_date": "2026-10-05T16:16:30.118919+00:00", "path": "/entertainment-arts/business/story/2026-10-05/meet-fox-news-correspondent-leading-fight-for-press-freedom-at-white-house", "schema": "Link", "scheme": "https", "snapshot_id": "46ea3c57-7644-4eee-9327-cb1d7cb2e755", "sources": [ "/data/sources/1791215123-import.txt" ], "tags": ",pool,drudge,war-wiki", "tags_str": "pool,drudge,war-wiki", "timestamp": "1791215123.282037", "title": "Meet the Fox News correspondent leading the fight for press freedom at the White House - Los Angeles Times", "updated": "2026-10-05T16:16:30.118737+00:00", "updated_date": "2026-10-05 16:16", "url": "https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2026-10-05/meet-fox-news-correspondent-leading-fight-for-press-freedom-at-white-house" }