The White House is expected to hold its first on-camera press briefing in almost a month on Friday, following Sean Spicer's resignation as press secretary earlier in the day.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the deputy press secretary, will run the White House briefing at 2 p.m., CBS News reports. It will be the first on-camera briefing in 22 days, since June 29.
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Spicer resigned as press secretary on Friday, largely due to his opposition to the appointment of Anthony Scaramucci as the new White House communications director.
Spicer had only been intermittently running the press briefings prior to his departure; July 17 marked his first briefing in nearly 3 weeks.
Most recent press briefings have been audio only, with no cameras allowed in the briefing room. This practice has attracted widespread criticism from the media, with at least one reporter getting into a verbal altercation with Spicer over the lack of cameras, and another illicitly livestreaming a portion of a briefing over Periscope.
It is unclear who will replace Spicer, or whether Friday's on-camera briefing signals a return to such briefings more generally.
