Press organizations said the rules would mean less reporting on the military and national security. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth downplayed the effects.

Defense department policy requires outlets to vow not to obtain unauthorized files and restricts access to some areas

Reporters must promise not to publish unauthorised material to obtain press credentials.

Sign Pete Hegseth’s ridiculous press restrictions? No way in hell!

A new Department of Defense policy bars journalists from the Pentagon unless they agree to only publish information that has been officially authorised.

Press organizations said the rules would mean less reporting on the military and national security. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth downplayed the effects.

Hegseth wants journalists to only publish ‘explicitly authorized’ information. That is not how the free press works

News organizations vowed they’d continue robust coverage of the military no matter what.

Reporters who declined to sign new set of Pentagon rules had to clear out of world’s largest military headquarters

Journalists reject Pentagon's new rules, exit building together, demonstrating against barriers to their work.

Reporters from more than 30 news outlets have vacated the Pentagon, refusing to comply with new reporting restrictions.

Roughly 15 reporters from a handful of outlets have agreed to Secretary Pete Hegseth's policies, according to The Washington Post.