Off-the-record lunch today with Obama media partners-Calderone

***6/17: "Obama held an off-the-record lunch Thursday at the White House with several prominent political writers and pundits: the Washington Post's Eugene Robinson, the Wall Street Journal's Jerry Seib, the New York Times' Gail Collins and MSNBC's Rachel Maddow. (Arianna Huffington was also invited, but according to her own White House reporter, she couldn't attend because of a scheduling conflict.)

• Yahoo! News confirmed the journalist guest list and also learned that the meeting was staffed by a trio of top White House officials: David Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel and Valerie Jarrett."...from Michael Calderone, Yahoo News, via Poynter.org/Romenesko