Dear Mr. President Elect:

In these final days before your inauguration, we thought it might be
helpful to clarify how we see the relationship between your
administration and the American press corps.

It will come as no surprise to you that we see the relationship as
strained. Reports over the last few days that your press secretary is
considering pulling news media offices out of the White House are the
latest in a pattern of behavior that has persisted throughout the
campaign: You’ve banned news organizations from covering you. You’ve taken to Twitter to taunt and threaten individual reporters and encouraged your supporters to do the same. You’ve advocated for looser libel laws and threatened numerous lawsuits
of your own, none of which has materialized. You’ve avoided the press
when you could and flouted the norms of pool reporting and regular press
conferences. You’ve ridiculed a reporter who wrote something you didn’t
like because he has a disability.

All of this, of course, is your choice and, in a way, your right.
While the Constitution protects the freedom of the press, it doesn’t
dictate how the president must honor that; regular press conferences
aren’t enshrined in the document.

But while you have every right to decide your ground rules for
engaging with the press, we have some, too. It is, after all, our
airtime and column inches that you are seeking to influence. We, not
you, decide how best to serve our readers, listeners, and viewers. So
think of what follows as a backgrounder on what to expect from us over
the next four years.

(via An open letter to Trump from the US press corps – Columbia Journalism Review)