Press club

A press club is an organization for journalists and others who are professionally engaged in the production and dissemination of news.^[1] 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 correspondents are called Foreign Correspondents' Clubs.

Roles

A meeting of Japan's National Press Club in 2010

In Japan, press clubs are called kisha clubs. They often create close relationships to their sources, effectively monopolizing the news.^[1][2] They also often institute "blackboard agreements", in which they agree not to report stories until a certain date.^[1]

List of press clubs

Examples of press clubs include the following.

• International Association of Press Clubs
• International online Press Club

Asia

• Chitral Press Club (Pakistan)
• Chittagong Press Club (Bangladesh)
• Dubai Press Club
• Sharjah Press Club (UAE)
• Japan National Press Club
• Jatiya Press Club (Bangladesh)
• Karachi Press Club (Pakistan)
• Lahore Press Club (Pakistan)
• Narayanganj Online Press Club
• National Press Club (Pakistan)
• National Press Club (Philippines)
• Press Club Sadhoke (Pakistan)^[3]
• Peshawar Press Club (Pakistan)
• Press Club of Pakistan UK
• Press Club of India (New Delhi)

  

  The Thrissur Press Club headquarters

• Press Club, Thiruvananthapuram (India)
• Quetta Press Club (Pakistan)
• Thrissur Press Club (India)
• Sitakunda Press Club

(Chattogram, Bangladesh)

Africa and Oceania

• Cape Town Press Club (South Africa)
• Melbourne Press Club (Australia)
• National Press Club (Australia)
• National Press Club (South Africa)
• National Broadcasting Corporation National Press Club (Papua New Guinea)

Americas

Logo of the US's National Press Club

• American News Women's Club
• Capital Press Club (US)
• Club de Periodistas de Mexico
• Denver Press Club (US)
• Gridiron Club (US)
• Hollywood Women's Press Club (US)
• Media Club of Canada (defunct)
• Michigan Woman's Press Association (US)
• Milwaukee Press Club (US)
• National Press Club of Canada

• National Press Club (United States)
• New England Woman's Press Association (US)
• New York Press Club (US)
• Newswomen's Club of New York (US)
• Pen & Pencil Club (US)
• Press Club (San Francisco)^[4]
• Overseas Press Club of America (New York, US)
• Syracuse Press Club (US)

Europe

A meeting of the UK's Frontline Club

• Berliner Presse Club [de] (Germany)
• Birmingham Press Club (UK)
• Concordia Press Club (Austria), the oldest of its type in the world^{[citation needed]}
• Frontline Club (London, UK)
• Press Club of Pakistan UK
• London Press Club (UK)
• Press Club Brussels Europe
• Press Club de France
• Press Club Polska (Poland)

See also

• International Association of Press Clubs
• Foreign Correspondents' Club
• Press Club (band), an Australian punk band

References

1. Borowiec, Steven (July 2016). "Writers of wrongs: Have Japan's press clubs created overly cosy relationships between business leaders and the press?". Index on Censorship. 45 (2): 48–50. doi:10.1177/0306422016657025. ISSN 0306-4220.
2. Taketoshi, Yamamoto (1989). "The Press Clubs of Japan". Journal of Japanese Studies. 15 (2): 371–388. doi:10.2307/132360. ISSN 0095-6848. JSTOR 132360.
3. "Annual elections of Press Club Sadhoke 2024-2025". ASN News HD. 2024-01-01. Retrieved 2024-02-11.
4. "Press Club Elects Its New Officials". San Francisco, California: San Francisco Chronicle. 1 Sep 1905. p. 9. Retrieved January 5, 2022.

External links

• Media related to Press clubs at Wikimedia Commons