Brian Karem

Brian Karem is an American journalist and White House correspondent for Playboy Magazine. He was the 1991 recipient of the National Press Club Freedom of the Press award for refusing to reveal his sources in a story related to the killing of a police officer in Texas.

He gained notoriety on June 27, 2017, when he confronted deputy White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on "inflammatory" comments about the performance of the press while covering President Donald Trump. This was in reference to several CNN stories concerning the Administration that later had to be retracted due to the negligence of proper editing procedures.

This wasn't the first time Brian went head to head with an Administration. In 1992 he was covering an international drug summit in San Antonio, Texas. He asked President Bush to comment on claims the summit was a "joke." President Bush countered that the press should ask questions of the other presidents and not him. Brian persisted until Bush allowed Brian to ask his question to Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari.Brian lost his job at KMOL over his aggressive style of questioning. This act gained him an interview with Sam Donaldson on ABC and a mention from Late Night Host, Jay Leno.