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Definition of "public press" [public press]

  • The print media responsible for gathering and publishing news in the form of newspapers or magazines (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

Use "public press" in a sentence
  • "Beneath my nose the public press Outdoes me in sulphureousness;"
  • "He also did much valuable work in the missionary field, and engaged in controversy in the public press with some aggressive polemists of the Episcopal and"
  • "Kennaston, passing through a famed city, lunched with a personage who had been pleased to admire Men Who Loved Alison, and whose remunerative admiration had been skilfully trumpeted in the public press by Kennaston's publishers."