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Thwarted by two press clubs, Vivek Agnihotri will now hold press conference at hotel

In a week marked by conversations about press freedom, communal violence in Jodhpur, Modi’s visit to Europe, and a worrying power crisis across the country, social media was abuzz with something quite different.

Newslaundry · May 4, 2022

Sorting the fact from the spin in Clive Palmer's National Press Club address

United Australia Party chairman Clive Palmer repeated some previously debunked claims at the National Press Club. But there were some new ones which need further context as well.

ABC News · Apr 8, 2022

‘Will resist’: Journalists’ meet condemns ‘systematic sense’ of harassment from Ballia to Delhi

“From Burari to Ballia, they are two different incidents but their nature is the same because they are both unprecedented. Journalists who are messengers, providing news, are targeted,” said Press Club of India president Umakant Lakhera, in his opening remarks at a gathering of journalists at the club on Wednesday…

Newslaundry · Apr 6, 2022

Kashmir Press Club stands dissolved: Estates Department takes back the building at Polo View

There were fears among the journalist community in Kashmir that the “armed takeover” of the Kashmir Press Club over the weekend was aimed at throttling press freedom. Many journalists believed that move was meant to deny working journalists a space to work, debate and assemble independently.

Newslaundry · Jan 17, 2022

The journalist as neta: Inside the heady world of Press Club politics

A lot more than revelry and banter goes down between drinks at the Press Club of India, a 62-year-old institution that occupies one of Lutyens Delhi’s premier addresses – 1, Raisina Road. For a couple of weeks, two groups camp in the outer courtyard of the club, strategically seated at…

Newslaundry · Apr 9, 2021