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Responsibilities center on collecting information about what is happening inside the Administration and around the world, and getting that information to the media in a timely and accurate fashion. The information includes things like a summary of the President's schedule for the day, whom the President has seen, called or had interactions with, and the official position of the Administration on the news of the day. This position pays around 170,000 dollars per year.[citation needed]

The Press Secretary traditionally also fields questions from the White House Press Corps in briefings and press conferences, which are generally televised, and "press gaggles", which are on-the-record briefings without video recording, though transcripts are usually made available.

The position of White House Press Secretary has often been filled by individuals from news media backgrounds:

Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Stephen T. Early, a United Press International reporter and Associated Press correspondent
Harry S Truman appointed J. Leonard Reinsch, a radio man; Jonathan W. Daniels, a newspaper man who was in the Franklin Roosevelt Administration in multiple agencies and boards just prior to becoming White House Press Secretary; Charles Griffith Ross, a newspaper man who received the Pulitzer Prize in 1932; Early; Joseph Short, a newspaper man; and Roger Tubby, a reporter and editor turned Democratic National Committee spokesman before becoming White House Press Secretary
Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed James C. Hagerty, a New York Times reporter
John F. Kennedy appointed Pierre Salinger, a reporter and editor
Lyndon B. Johnson appointed George Christian, a reporter for International News Service
Gerald Ford appointed newspaper veteran Jerald terHorst and NBC News correspondent Ron Nessen to the post
Ronald Reagan appointed Larry Speakes, a newspaper man, and Marlin Fitzwater, a newspaper man
George H.W. Bush retained Fitzwater
George W. Bush appointed Fox News anchor Tony Snow, who also had extensive experience in the fields of print and radio journalism

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