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No ‘right-wing’, unfulfilled promises: Inside the Press Club of India’s ‘one-sided’ election

The sloganeering is absent, and candidates hop from one table to another to discreetly hand out pamphlets. In stark contrast to the last two years, the campaign for the annual polls at Delhi’s Press Club of India appears to be lacklustre this year, despite a list of unfulfilled promises.

Newslaundry · Sep 21, 2023

Days before new Parliament inauguration, curbs on media access back in focus with PCI letter to Birla

Three days before the inauguration of the new Parliament building, the Press Club of India has once again demanded that restrictions on the entry of journalists be removed.

Newslaundry · May 25, 2023

No data, questions ignored, sports used for ‘propaganda’: The trials of the modern Indian journalist

In India, the “good old days” of journalism weren’t that great. News was dangerous during the Emergency and governments did their best to stifle the free press, such as former Bihar chief minister Jagannath Mishra’s 1982 Bihar Press Bill.

Newslaundry · Apr 15, 2023

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'Publications now carry government's pictures': Press Club event looks at what ails photojournalism

On the first floor of the Press Club of India, in the corridor outside the conference room, a group of photojournalists were smoking cigarettes on Friday afternoon. “These men are stuck in a world that has long passed,” said one of them, carefully balancing a filter and tobacco on a…

Newslaundry · Aug 19, 2022

Press meet on Zubair’s arrest: Why journalists need more than just shows of solidarity

The conference hall of the Press Club of India was packed on Monday afternoon. It contained more than 70 journalists who had gathered to discuss, as PCI put it, the “creeping infringement of media freedom and assault on personal liberty of journalists”.

Newslaundry · Jul 4, 2022

‘We have to save our club’: Clean sweep for ‘leftist’ panel in Press Club polls

On May 21, voting took place to elect a new crop of office bearers at the Press Club of India in Delhi. A day later, the results were declared – the panel led by outgoing president Umakant Lakhera had won all the seats.

Newslaundry · May 23, 2022

Some hits, some misses: How have Press Club of India’s outgoing officials fared?

It’s that time of year again.

Newslaundry · May 20, 2022

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‘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

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

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