For those who make, cover and influence the news.

The Press Club is a professional, social and charitable organization of people who make, cover and influence the news. The mission of the Press Club of Metropolitan St. Louis is to serve as a primary resource for the journalism and communications industry. The Press Club shall advance understanding of the mass communications discipline, promote scholarship and professional excellence, facilitate communication between mass communicators and their respective publics and promote awareness of significant issues facing the mass communications field throughout the community. Please learn about our upcoming events as well as browse through some of the club's past history.

To contact the Press Club of Metropolitan St. Louis office, call 636-230-1973

Special Announcements

Press Club workshop: “How to Conquer Confusion and Use the New Media” Saturday, July 18 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Webster University (library). Click Here for information and to make reservations.

Press Club will provide funding for enterprise stories -- fellowship awards up to $10,000. Click Here for the news release. Click Here for rules and application criteria.

Press Club Lunch Forum, Noon, June 26: "Media in the Throes of Change" Click Here for photos.

Press Club to Award Elyse Anne Pickle with $5,000 Tim Russert Scholarship. Click Here.

Press Club 2009 Summer Internship Scholarship Winners Click Here

For Media Person of the Year Special Edition Newsletter Click Here

Press Club of Metropolitan St. Louis/St. Louis Post-Dispatch $5,000 David Lipman Scholarship for Missouri School of Journalism students announced. Click Here for more.

(from left): Brian Brooks, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies and
Administration, Missouri School of Journalism; Alice S. Handelman,
immediate past president, Press Club of Metropolitan St. Louis; Benjamin Lipman,
son of the late David Lipman and Press Club treasurer; Irv Harrell,
Director of Community Outreach, St. Louis Post Dispatch; Marilyn Lipman, wife of
the late David Lipman; James C. Sterling Professor and Missouri Community
Newspaper Management Chair, Missouri School of Journalism; and Richard
Weiss, Press Club President.

Press Club honors KMOV-TV's Larry Conners and Vickie Newton as 2009 Media Persons of the Year. Click here for photos