Noun
press card (plural press cards)
A press or media credential issued as identification to newsgatherers who work professionally in media. The principal occupations covered are reporters and writers, photographers, film and video camera operators and crews and other broadcasting workers such as producers and researchers.
Px 339 at 171. Also included in the new law is the requirement that all journalists obtain an annual press card, to be issued by an apparently government controlled association. Source: Internet
Journalist Gertrud Adelt has had her press card revoked by Joseph Goebbels and is still smarting from the insult. Source: Internet