The Queen Camilla ‘Future of Journalism’ Awards
The Journalists’ Charity has launched the Queen Camilla Future of Journalism Awards for 18-30 year olds working in any journalism role in the UK. With rising student debt and hikes in the cost-of-living threatening to price journalists out of the industry, the...
Awards Lunch date announced – Call for submissions
The Annual London Press Club Awards Lunch will take place at Stationers’ Hall on Wednesday, 21 October. The London Press Club Awards are unique among media awards as we do not ask for formal entries. The judges are senior journalists who bring their knowledge of...
2026 Cudlipp Lecture and Student Award – September 10
Victoria Newton will be giving the 2026 Cudlipp Award at the Royal Overseas League on September 10.The Editor-in-Chief of The Sun is an award-winning journalist with more than 20 years’ experience in the industry. After graduating from the University of Cambridge with...
Special Garden Party in honour of her late Majesty
The London Press Club held a special summer garden party this week in College Gardens, within the grounds of Westminster Abbey. The garden, said to be the oldest cultivated in England, dates back some nine hundred years to when it served as the monks’ kitchen and...
Editors call for action in social media debate
Ban on young people’s use ‘is not a complete answer’ Editors joined a lively and thoughtful debate on whether social media ban should be banned for young people. More than 120 attended the London Press Club and Stationers’ Livery Club event. What...Follow us on Twitter
Bill Hagerty - A tribute to our Director and Journalist Laureate who passed away yesterday. #journalism #journalist
RIP ace journalist Bill Hagerty, former editor of The People.
He was a shrewd, kindly and humorous bloke with an engagingly cantankerous side.
Thinking of Liz and his family and all his friends.
RIP.
https://mailchi.mp/bd45f6a74be4/news-from-the-london-press-club-bill-hagerty . The London Press Club was saddened to learn of the passing of respected journalist and Press Club Director, Bill Hagerty, on Boxing Day. Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this sad time.