ABC News has promoted Rachel Scott to a White House Correspondent role at the broadcast network.
“The first black female White House correspondent pawned her watch every week to have enough money to eat. It took two years for her to be called on at a White House press conference. She was skipped. Overlooked. Ignored. White male reporters joked she should ‘save her strength.’ Few people know the story of Alice Allison Dunnigan but I think of it nearly every time I enter the White House,” Scott wrote on Instagram.
“Just 75 years ago someone who looked like me couldn’t have a press credential into a White House built by slaves. ?Feel incredibly grateful that the next time I walk through those gates, it will be as a White House corespondent,” she added.
Scott joined ABC News as a production associate in 2016. She then worked for Good Morning America’s digital team and offered her talents as an on-air correspondent for ABC News’ New Haven affiliate. In 2019, she moved to Washington, D.C. to work as a producer for the network’s White House team and an embed for the Donald Trump campaign.
