{{Short description|Organization for journalists and others}} {{more citations needed|date=January 2022}}
A '''press club''' is an organization for journalists and others who are professionally engaged in the production and dissemination of news.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Borowiec |first=Steven |date=July 2016 |title=Writers of wrongs: Have Japan's press clubs created overly cosy relationships between business leaders and the press? |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0306422016657025 |journal=Index on Censorship |language=en |volume=45 |issue=2 |pages=48–50 |doi=10.1177/0306422016657025 |issn=0306-4220}}</ref> 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 == {{Expand section|date=March 2024}} thumb|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.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Taketoshi |first=Yamamoto |date=1989 |title=The Press Clubs of Japan |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/132360 |journal=Journal of Japanese Studies |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=371–388 |doi=10.2307/132360 |jstor=132360 |issn=0095-6848|url-access=subscription }}</ref> They also often institute "blackboard agreements", in which they agree not to report stories until a certain date.<ref name=":0" />
==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)<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2024-01-01 |title=Annual elections of Press Club Sadhoke 2024-2025 |url=https://www.asnnewshd.com/2024/01/annual-elections-of-press-club-sadhoke.html |access-date=2024-02-11 |website=ASN News HD |language=en-US}}</ref> *Peshawar Press Club (Pakistan) *Press Club of Pakistan UK *Press Club of India (New Delhi)thumb|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 === thumb|Logo of the US's National Press Club [[File:Korematsu Coram Nobis Press Conference.jpg|thumb|Fred Korematsu (front, center) at The Press Club of San Francisco for a press conference about the federal court coram nobis petition, 1983]] *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) *Los Angeles 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) * Pacific Coast Women's Press Association (US) * Pen & Pencil Club (US) *The Press Club of San Francisco<ref>{{cite news |date=1 Sep 1905 |title=Press Club Elects Its New Officials. |page=9 |publisher=San Francisco Chronicle |place=San Francisco, California |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91913347/press-club/ |access-date=January 5, 2022}}</ref> *Overseas Press Club of America (New York, US) *The Silurians Press Club *Syracuse Press Club (US) *Woman's Press Club of New York City (US) *Women's Press Club of Los Angeles (US)
=== Europe === thumb|A meeting of the UK's Frontline Club *{{Interlanguage link|Berliner Presse Club|de|Berliner Presse Club}} (Germany) *Birmingham Press Club (UK) *Concordia Press Club (Austria), the oldest of its type in the world{{Cn|date=March 2024}} *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== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Commons category-inline|Press clubs}}
Category:Press clubs