# Search: credential control The number of entries reflects the depth of this record, not the severity of a country's conduct. Filters: country, continent, tactic, stage, from, to, level, actor, leader, outlet, outcome, source_kind, has_case, plus q, sort (date, date_asc, country, tactic, relevance), per_page (up to 100), page and view (table or cards), as query parameters. 13 incidents match this view. - 18 September 2026: [United States: White House hard-pass deactivations for CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters, September 2026](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2026-white-house-bans-cnn-msnow-politico). On September 18, 2026, the president of the United States, Donald Trump, announced on Truth Social, a social media platform, and in the Oval Office that CNN, MS NOW and Politico would be banned from the White House, the president's office… - 15 October 2025: [United States: News organizations turn in their Pentagon press credentials, October 2025](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2025-pentagon-press-corps-forfeits-badges). Beginning on October 15, 2025, reporters from at least 30 news organizations vacated the press workspace at the Pentagon, the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, rather than sign the department's new credential pledge,… - 19 September 2025: [United States: Department of Defense press credential rules requiring approval before release of information, September 2025](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2025-pentagon-issues-new-press-credentialing-rules). On September 19, 2025, the United States Department of Defense, the federal department that provides the country's military forces, issued new credential rules for reporters at the Pentagon, its headquarters building, under the Secretary o… - 25 February 2025: [United States: White House takes over selection of the presidential press pool, February 2025](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2025-whca-loses-control-of-press-pool). On February 25, 2025, the White House announced that it would decide which journalists join the press pool, the small rotating group of reporters who cover the president of the United States in spaces such as the Oval Office and Air Force… - 20 August 2024: [Kazakhstan: new accreditation rules let officials withdraw a journalist's pass for off-topic questions](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2024-kazakhstan-restrictive-media-accreditation-rules). Kazakhstan's government adopted rules allowing journalists' accreditation to be withdrawn for six months over conduct at a news event, including asking off-topic questions, while proposing separate rules letting the foreign ministry deny f… - 1 April 2021: [Turkiye: the presidency's press card system is found restrictive by the country's top administrative court](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2021-turkiye-press-card-controls-restrictive). Turkiye's Council of State suspended 2018 rules under which the presidency's Communications Directorate could deny or cancel the yellow and turquoise press cards that let reporters work and enter official buildings, after finding the groun… - 18 March 2020: [China: press credentials and visas withheld from correspondents at three American newspapers](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2020-china-press-card-visa-restrictions-us-outlets). A survey by the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China found the government refused new press credentials to journalists tied to American outlets and cancelled or refused visas for correspondents at the New York Times, Wall Street Journal a… - 17 March 2020: [China expels American journalists from three major U.S. newspapers](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2020-china-expels-us-newspaper-journalists). China ordered American correspondents for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post to leave the country, in a reciprocal response to the Trump administration capping the number of Chinese state-media employees al… - 7 November 2018: [White House revokes CNN correspondent Jim Acosta's press credential after a news conference exchange with President Trump](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2018-us-cnn-acosta-credential-revoked). After CNN's Jim Acosta questioned President Trump at a news conference and briefly kept hold of a microphone as an intern reached for it, the White House suspended his hard pass, the standing credential letting reporters enter the grounds;… - 7 November 2018: [United States: White House suspension of CNN correspondent Jim Acosta's hard pass, November 2018](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2018-white-house-revokes-acosta-press-pass). On November 7, 2018, the White House suspended the hard pass of CNN's White House correspondent, Jim Acosta, after what Gulf News called a "heated confrontation" between Acosta and the president of the United States, Donald Trump, at a new… - 12 May 2005: [Zimbabwe: the High Court refuses to accredit Daily News journalists under the media registration law](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/2005-zimbabwe-court-refuses-daily-news-accreditation). Zimbabwe's High Court ruled that Daily News journalists could not be accredited to work as reporters until their newspaper's publisher had itself been registered with the government's Media and Information Commission. - April 1938: [Franco's Spain requires state permission to be a journalist under a wartime Press Law](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/1938-spain-franco-press-law). While Spain's civil war continued, the Nationalist government led by Francisco Franco enacted a Press Law in April 1938 requiring government permission to found a newspaper, work as a journalist or direct a paper, alongside continued pre-p… - 4 October 1933: [Nazi Germany's Editors Law bars Jewish journalists from the press and puts editors under state direction](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/1933-germany-editors-law). Nine months after Adolf Hitler became chancellor, Germany's Schriftleitergesetz, or Editors Law, required journalists to register with a new state-controlled Reich Press Chamber and barred non-Aryans from the profession, while directing ed… Download this view. CSV, JSON or Markdown. CC BY 4.0; credit "The War On News, thewaronnews.com". - CSV: https://thewaronnews.com/search?tactic=credential_control&view=cards&format=csv - JSON: https://thewaronnews.com/search.json?tactic=credential_control&view=cards - Markdown: https://thewaronnews.com/search.md?tactic=credential_control&view=cards Source page: https://thewaronnews.com/search?tactic=credential_control&view=cards. The War On News, CC BY 4.0.