The Defense Department announced Monday that it has changed protocols for its media briefing room that includes the relocation of reporters to workspace outside the Pentagon, amid the agency's appeal of a court decision on media access. 

U.S. District Court Judge Paul Friedman on Friday dismissed parts of the Pentagon's new guidelines released last year and ordered it to restore the press passes of seven journalists for the New York Times, which brought the lawsuit challenging the guidelines.

The agency said that in the interim, without conceding the validity of the court's analysis, it has complied with the court's order while preserving it's "legitimate security interests and its statutory obligation."

In the interim, the department will close the correspondents' corridor within the Pentagon and relocate their workspace to an annex facility outside the Pentagon that is still under construction. 

The new guidelines, to which numerous news outlets objected, limit journalists' movement inside the Pentagon, restrict their access to officials and require them to sign a pledge to not solicit, access or publish unauthorized information, even if unclassified.

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.