The White House Press Secretary is a senior official.
The position has often been filled by individuals from news media backgrounds:Roosevelt administration  Stephen Early, a reporter for United Press International and correspondent for the Associated PressTruman administration  Jonathan W
:4 Though the title and establishment of the roles and responsibilities of the press secretary job was still decades in the future, the small and growing White House staff was increasingly interacting with a growing number of professional journalists and mass media entities covering the president and the White House

