1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Protect Reporters from Exploitative State Spying Act or the PRESS Act . 2. Definitions In this Act: (1) Covered journalist The term covered journalist means a person who regularly gathers, prepares, collects, photographs, records, writes, edits, reports, investigates, or publishes news or information that concerns local, national, or international events or other matters of public interest for dissemination to the public. (2) Covered service provider (A) In general The term covered service provider means any person that, by an electronic means, stores, processes, or transmits information in order to provide a service to customers of the person. (B) Inclusions The term covered service provider includes— (i) a telecommunications carrier and a provider of an information service (as such terms are defined in section 3 of the Communications Act of 1934 ( 47 U.S.C. 153 )); (ii) a provider of an interactive computer service and an information content provider (as such terms are defined in section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934 ( 47 U.S.C. 230 )); (iii) a provider of remote computing service (as defined in section 2711 of title 18, United States Code)