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.

• "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."