Blogger Gets Front-Row Seat at Obama Press Conference

White House officials phoned a blogger from a popular left-leaning Web site on Monday evening to tell him that President Barack Obama had been impressed with his online reporting about Iran. Could the writer pass along a question from an Iranian during the president's news conference on Tuesday? Of course. The next day, The Huffington Post's Nico Pitney, the Web site's national editor, got a prime location in the White House Briefing Room and was the second reporter Obama picked for a question.