The Defense Department has announced a “new media” press corps largely comprised of conservative news outlets after restrictions introduced for journalists covering the agency led many to walk out rather than agree to the agency’s demands.

Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell announced on X on Wednesday that “over 60 journalists, representing a broad spectrum of new media outlets and independent journalists, have signed the Pentagon’s media access policy and will be joining the new Pentagon press corps.” Twenty-six of those journalists already had access to the Pentagon and previously signed its press policy, he noted.

The policy, which imposes new limitations on journalists’ access and bars them from soliciting information from the agency that has not been authorized for release, even

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