Presidents provide information to the Press in many ways, including on- and off-the-record interviews, speeches, deliberate leaks, etc. The APP has categorized the following interactions as “news conferences”:
A President and reporters meet specifically to answer questions in a somewhat formal setting. Conferences are often televised in prime time. Until Coolidge’s presidency, the meetings were not always entirely on-the-record and were not broadcast live.
The data below counts the number of news conferences that have occurred since the Nixon Administration, and the total of all “solo-regular” and prime-time televised news conferences. Note that these statistics do not include Joint conferences involving foreign heads of state.
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