Winnipeg Press Club

Each day this week this blog - in honour of National Volunteer Week - is featuring a non profit with which Norman Leach and Associates is proud to be affiliated.

As the oldest press club in Canada and easily one of the oldest in the world - the Winnipeg Press Club celebrated its 125^th anniversary in 2012. 

The two questions everyone asks about the Press Club  are:  what is it and what does it do.

 

The days of a press club being a watering hole for road-weary journalists is long past.  As Bob Dylan said .. “ the times they are a changin’.”

Another challenge is trying to connect the new with the old.  The Club has speakers on the future of the news media and invited all the creative communication classes in Winnipeg to attend.

But the club also haven’t forgotten that it still needs to be a place of mentoring, fun , camaraderie – and storytelling – because after all  -- isn’t that what we are … storytellers. 

Norman Leach is the Ambassador at Large for the Winnipeg Press Club.