Sentence examples for background briefings for from inspiring English sources

Ms. Johnson said The Associated Press had objected to scheduled background briefings for the last two years.

Background briefings for rooms full of reporters have been common in many administrations, and Washington bureau chiefs have protested them before.

HEU is just beginning to undertake background briefings for journalists on health economics issues in South Africa as a means to try to raise the general level of health literacy in the media.

But Israeli journalists, based on background briefings from officials here, reported that they had been told of two variations on a plan for Jerusalem.

I do plan to explore these complexities at some later date, but for now I'll stick to the one point on which there was near unanimous agreement: that "background briefings" of government and political figures are an affront to journalistic integrity and an insult to the citizenry.

The assumption here, based on leaks and some background briefings from diplomats, is that Hezbollah operatives are named in the indictments.

For three days, officials at news conferences and background briefings said their concerns were based on new information, then old information, then back to new information.

For the first time ever, reporters from Spanish-language news outlets have been included in small groups that receive background briefings over lunch from the president, meetings that have typically been reserved for the nation's best-known and most well-connected reporters for English-language outlets.

Sandy Johnson, the Washington bureau chief for The Associated Press, said the government's message was undermined by background briefings.

Bigfoot reporters for the Times and Washington Post, etc., write down what the officials tell them in private background briefings.

Nor did the committee see much point in boycotting the background briefings.