President Donald Trump’s complicated relationship with the news media has riveted the political class for months – his impromptu TV appearances where foreign policy is made, his early-morning tweets, his crowing about ratings, and his love-hate relationship with individual outlets.
Now, BuzzFeed, an outlet he recently labeled a “failing pile of garbage,” is hiring a reporter whose full-time job will be to cover his complex dynamic with the news. Steven Perlberg, who will join the website from The Wall Street Journal, is part of a broader trend from media outlets to increase their coverage of the Trump administration and its testy relationship with the media. But while plenty of outlets (POLITICO included) have full-time media reporters who often cover Trump, BuzzFeed thus far seems to stand alone as an outlet who is dedicating a full-time person to the intersection.
