A press club is an organization for

journalist A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into a newsworthy form and disseminates it to the public. This is called journalism. Roles Journalists can work in broadcast, print, advertis ...

s and others who are professionally engaged in the production and dissemination of

news News is information about current events. This may be provided through many different Media (communication), media: word of mouth, printing, Mail, postal systems, broadcasting, Telecommunications, electronic communication, or through the te ...

. A press club whose membership is defined by the press of a given country may be known as a National Press Club of that country. Press clubs for

foreign correspondent A correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is usually a journalist or commentator for a magazine, or an agent who contributes reports to a newspaper, or radio or television news, or another type of company, from a remote, often distant, locati ...

s are called Foreign Correspondents' Clubs.

Roles

20100329 Yukio Edano at JAPAN NATIONAL PRESS CLUB

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, press clubs are called ''kisha'' clubs. They often create close relationships to their

sources Source may refer to: Research * Historical document * Historical source * Source (intelligence) or sub source, typically a confidential provider of non open-source intelligence * Source (journalism), a person, publication, publishing institute ...

, effectively monopolizing the news. They also often institute "blackboard agreements", in which they agree not to report stories until a certain date.

List of press clubs

Examples of press clubs include the following. *

International Association of Press Clubs The International Association of Press Clubs (IAPC) is an international collaborative chain of national organisations (Press Clubs and FCCs) which support the professional endeavours of its members and the principle of a free press. Freedom of ...

*International online Press Club

Asia

* Chitral Press Club (Pakistan) * Chittagong Press Club (Bangladesh) *

Dubai Press Club Dubai Press Club (Arabic: نادي دبي للصحافة) is a part of the Government of Dubai Media Office founded in November 1999 by Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and is based in Dubai Media City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It launched th ...

* Sharjah Press Club (UAE) *

Japan National Press Club The is an association of journalists in Japan. History This was established as a national press centre, in place of Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan, in November 1969. See also * Press club * Mass media and politics in Japan * Kisha club ...

Jatiya Press Club Jatiya Press Club () is the professional club for journalists of Bangladesh located in Segunbaghicha, Dhaka. History The Jatiya Press Club was founded in 1954 as the East Pakistan Press Club. It was formed to be run by an elected committee gui ...

(Bangladesh) *

Karachi Press Club The Karachi Press Club (KPC @pressclubkhi) () is an organization of the community of the journalists. It also takes account of academics, business people and people from the public service. Karachi Press Club was the first press club that was est ...

(Pakistan) *

Lahore Press Club The Lahore Press Club () is an association of primarily news journalists, and also includes academics, business people and members of the public service sector in Lahore, Pakistan. It is the biggest press club in the country, with a membership of 3 ...

(Pakistan) * Narayanganj Online Press Club *

National Press Club (Pakistan) The National Press Club of Islamabad, Pakistan, is a representative body of journalists based in Rawalpindi and the Pakistani federal capital Islamabad Islamabad (; , ; ) is the capital city of Pakistan. It is the country's tenth-most popul ...

National Press Club (Philippines) A press club is an organization for journalists and others who are professionally engaged in the production and dissemination of news. A press club whose membership is defined by the press of a given country may be known as a National Press Club ...

* Press Club Sadhoke (Pakistan) *

Peshawar Press Club The Peshawar Press Club (PPC; Urdu: ) is an organisation of journalists and professionals working in media in Peshawar, Pakistan. The press club was founded in 1964 after the need for journalists to sit and organise press conferences was raised. Cur ...

(Pakistan) *

Press Club of Pakistan UK Press may refer to: Media * Publisher * News media * Printing press, commonly called "the press" * Press TV, an Iranian television network Newspapers United States * ''The Press'', a former name of ''The Press-Enterprise'', Riverside, California ...

Press Club of India Press Club of India (PCI) is an association of journalists and media professionals in New Delhi, India. Founded by Durga Das in 1957, it is led by an annually elected executive body, which consists of a president, vice president, secretary-gen ...

(

New Delhi New Delhi (; ) is the Capital city, capital of India and a part of the Delhi, National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT). New Delhi is the seat of all three branches of the Government of India, hosting the Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Parliament ...

)

Press Club, Thiruvananthapuram The Press Club, Thiruvananthapuram is the hub of media activities in Thiruvananthapuram, capital of Kerala. Established in 1965 with 20 members, which has now swelled into 350. Governor Sahay addressed the first ‘Meet-the-Press’ program o ...

(India) *

Quetta Press Club The Quetta Press Club is a press club in Quetta, Pakistan.Quetta Press Club elects office bearers Thrissur Press Club The Thrissur Press Club (TPC) is an association of primarily news journalists and media professionals in the Thrissur City, Kerala, India. It is also the District Unit of Kerala Kerala ( , ) is a States and union territories of India, s ...

(India) *

Sitakunda Press Club Sitakunda or Sitakunda Town () is an administrative centre and the sole municipality (''Paurashava'') of Sitakunda Upazila in Chattogram District, located in Chattogram Division, Bangladesh. Sitakunda is famous for the Chandranath Temple and H ...

(Chattogram, Bangladesh)

Africa and Oceania

Cape Town Press Club The Cape Town Press Club is the oldest press club in South Africa. Founded in 1975 as a voluntary association of journalists, it has since become a non-profit organisation supporting freedom of the press. It is based in Cape Town, South Africa and ...

(South Africa) *

Melbourne Press Club The Melbourne Press Club (MPC), is a not-for-profit association of journalists in the city of Melbourne, Australia. It runs the annual Quill Awards for Excellence in Victorian Journalism. Governance MPC is a not-for-profit association of journal ...

(Australia) *

National Press Club (Australia) The National Press Club is an association of primarily news journalists, but also includes academics, business people and members of the public service, and is based in Canberra, Australia. History The National Press Club was founded in 1963 a ...

* National Press Club (South Africa) *

National Broadcasting Corporation The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. It is one of NBCUniversal's ...

National Press Club (Papua New Guinea)

Americas

* American News Women's Club *

Capital Press Club The Capital Press Club was founded in 1944 as an African-American African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total o ...

(US) * Club de Periodistas de Mexico *

Denver Press Club The Denver Press Club, located at 1330 Glenarm Place, Denver, Colorado, is the oldest press club in the United States. Journalists first met in 1867, and the club was incorporated in 1877. History Members first met in the basement of Wolfe Londone ...

(US) *

Gridiron Club The Gridiron Club is the oldest and most selective journalistic organization in Washington, D.C. History :"an elitist social club of sixty print journalists" — Hedrick Smith, ''Power Game: How Washington Works'' February 1988 Random House ...

(US) *

Hollywood Women's Press Club The Hollywood Women's Press Club was created in 1928 by Louella Parsons Louella Rose Oettinger, (August 6, 1881 – December 9, 1972) known by the pen name Louella Parsons, was an American gossip columnist and a screenwriter. At her peak, her c ...

(US) * Media Club of Canada (defunct) *

Michigan Woman's Press Association Michigan Woman's Press Association (MWPA) was an American professional association for women writers and journalists in Michigan. Founded in 1890, it was active until shortly before World War I World War I or the First World War (28 July 1 ...

(US) *

Milwaukee Press Club The Milwaukee Press Club, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is the oldest continuously operating press club in the United States. The club comprises journalists and others in the media in the Milwaukee area, as well as journalism educators, public relations ...

(US) *

National Press Club of Canada National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, ce ...

National Press Club (United States) The National Press Club is a Professional association, professional organization and social community in Washington, D.C. for journalists and communications professionals. It hosts public and private gatherings with invited speakers from public ...

New England Woman's Press Association The New England Woman's Press Association (NEWPA) was founded by six Boston newspaper women in 1885 and incorporated in 1890. By the turn of the century it had over 150 members. NEWPA sought not only to bring female colleagues together and further ...

(US) *

New York Press Club The New York Press Club, sometimes ''NYPC'', is a nonprofit membership organization that promotes journalism in the New York metropolitan area, New York City metropolitan area. It is unaffiliated with any government organization and abstains from ...

(US) *

Newswomen's Club of New York The Newswomen's Club of New York is a nonprofit organization that focuses on women working in the media in the New York City metropolitan area. Founded in 1922 as the New York Newspaper Woman's Club, it included Eleanor Roosevelt, Helen Rogers R ...

(US) * Pen & Pencil Club (US) *

Press Club (San Francisco) A press club is an organization for journalists and others who are professionally engaged in the production and dissemination of news. A press club whose membership is defined by the press of a given country may be known as a National Press Club ...

Overseas Press Club of America The Overseas Press Club of America (OPC) was founded in 1939 in New York City by a group of foreign correspondents. The wire service reporter Carol Weld was a founding member, as was the war correspondent Peggy Hull. The club seeks to maintain ...

(New York, US) *

The Silurians Press Club The Silurians Press Club, also known as The Society of the Silurians, is an American organization composed of veteran journalists based in New York City. It is one of the oldest press clubs in the country, and honors journalistic work about and w ...

Syracuse Press Club The Syracuse Press Club, based in Syracuse, New York, serves as a 21-county area of central New York. The club is made up of journalists and communications specialists from throughout the Central New York region. The organization is for those who ...

(US)

Europe

* (Germany) *

Birmingham Press Club Birmingham Press Club is a press club based in the English city of Birmingham. Established in 1865, just six years after Concordia Press Club in Vienna, became the second oldest organisation of its type in the world. The club hosts a number of p ...

(UK) * Concordia Press Club (Austria), the oldest of its type in the world *

Frontline Club The Frontline Club is a media club and registered charity created by Vaughan and Pranvera Smith, located near Paddington Station in London. With a strong emphasis on conflict reporting, it aims to champion independent journalism, provide an effe ...

(London, UK) *

London Press Club The London Press Club was established in 1882 as a London gentlemen's club. For much of its history, it occupied premises in Wine Office Court, near Fleet Street Fleet Street is a street in Central London, England. It runs west to east fro ...

(UK) * Press Club Brussels Europe * Press Club de France * Press Club Polska (Poland)

References

External links

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