Press club

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 of that country.

Press clubs for foreign correspondents are called Foreign Correspondents' Clubs.

History

The first press club was founded in Vienna in 1859, which is called Concordia Press Club and still Austria's main press club .

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. 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.

Asia

(Chattogram, Bangladesh)

Africa and Oceania

Americas

Logo of the US's National Press Club
Fred Korematsu (front, center) at The Press Club of San Francisco for a press conference about the federal court coram nobis petition, 1983

Europe

A meeting of the UK's Frontline Club

See also

References

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  5. ↑ "Press Club Elects Its New Officials". San Francisco, California: San Francisco Chronicle. 1 Sep 1905. p. 9. Retrieved January 5, 2022.