Behold: The White House Briefing Room Seating Chart

Location, location, location.

There are only 49 seats in the White House briefing room, which makes them highly coveted. So when changes were recently implemented, news organizations scrambled. Score a front row seat and you’re likely to get questions answered. Land in the back row? Good luck.

The best seats in the new White House briefing room belong to NBC News, Fox News (which beat out NPR and Bloomberg News years ago), the AP, ABC News, Reuters and CNN.

The AP typically gets selected first.

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