Trump's planned appearance bringing renewed scrutiny to annual correspondents' dinner
Read full article: Trump's planned appearance bringing renewed scrutiny to annual correspondents' dinnerFor the first time as president, Donald Trump is planning to attend the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner in Washington this weekend.
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CBS White House reporter Weijia Jiang is writing a memoir
Read full article: CBS White House reporter Weijia Jiang is writing a memoirNEW YORK – CBS News White House correspondent Weijia Jiang is working on a memoir about her experiences as a Chinese American. One Signal Publishers, a Simon & Schuster imprint, announced Thursday that Jiang's “Other” would come out in Spring 2022. "In rural West Virginia where I grew up, most residents had never laid eyes on Chinese people until they saw my parents and me," Jiang, 37, said in a statement. “In China where I was born, I’m the foreign relative who married a White guy. In various newsrooms where I have worked, no one looked like me.
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Reporters Alcindor, Collins, Jiang get under Trump's skin
Read full article: Reporters Alcindor, Collins, Jiang get under Trump's skinReporters Alcindor, Weijia Jiang and Kaitlan Collins have faced hostility from Trump at news conferences with stoicism. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, FIle)NEW YORK To anyone who's watched, there's more that binds Yamiche Alcindor, Kaitlan Collins and Weijia Jiang than an impromptu display of teamwork at a recent White House news conference. Each reporter has a knack for getting under President Donald Trump's skin and an equal ability not to let it knock them off stride. Trump has reacted to questions by Alcindor, Collins and Jiang by calling them nasty or racist, and effectively telling the journalists to pipe down. This president doesn't live by those rules.Jiang, Collins and Alcindor aren't the only reporters to tangle with Trump.
