press gallery

noun

: an area especially in a court of law where news reporters sit

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The team members, who were at the White House earlier in the day, entered through the House press gallery above the dais, holding up their medals. CBS News, 25 Feb. 2026 Laslo hung a blazer over the sign for the radio-TV press gallery. Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024 The origins of this effort trace as far back as an evening in the early 1990s, on a Potomac River booze cruise, when a 20-something congressional press gallery official, Michael Caputo, looked up and saw someone familiar: Tom Woolston, a 20-something CIA technical operations officer. Manuel Roig-Franzia, Washington Post, 17 Apr. 2023

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“Press gallery.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/press%20gallery. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.

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