The White House announced Tuesday that it would decide which journalists get access to US President Donald Trump's events, stripping the power from an independent association of media outlets that has done so for around a century.

White House officials “will determine” which news outlets can regularly cover President Donald Trump up close — a sharp break from a century of tradition, something one expert on presidents and the press calls a “dangerous move for democracy.

In announcing plans to hand-select the reporters who can ask the president questions at many events, the White House is breaking decades of precedent.