Pete Hegseth(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)Andrew Thornebrooke, a national security reporter at the right-leaning The Epoch Times, has resigned after the outlet agreed to the Pentagon’s new press restrictions, The New York Times reported on Sunday. The Pentagon revised its update after reporters and press groups were upset with a draft of new rules circulated last month. That draft called for reporters to get approval from Defense Department officials before publishing stories, even if they contained unclassified information. The Pentagon’s new rules do not require credentialed journalists to get approval before publishing non-public information. The post Reporter at Right-Leaning Epoch Times Resigns Over New Pentagon Rules, Says Outlet Was ‘Merely Repeating State Narratives’ first appeared on Mediaite.

Source: The Times October 20, 2025 11:04 UTC