Several members gather at July 2013 meeting in downtown Pittsburgh.
As the second oldest women's press club in the nation, the Women's Press Club of Pittsburgh strives to honor its past and forge into the future by providing a place for women in the news media — journalists, writers, editors, photographers, broadcasters, public relations professionals, and their supporters. We welcome new members to our many events, which offer forums for networking and education about trends in the industry.
As part of our mission, we seek to encourage future generations of journalists by annually awarding dedicated students with the Gertrude Gordon Memorial Fund scholarship.
We believe the group's mission is as important today as it was more than a century ago when the organization was founded in what was dubbed by a local newspaper as "crusty Pittsburgh."
"(The) hardest nut for women with a yen for newspapering to crack is newspaperdom’s crusty aversion to skirts flapping around city desks, nowhere harder to crack than in crusty Pittsburgh,” noted a 1940 article in the city’s Bulletin. "It was this problem which brought the Women’s Press Club of Pittsburgh into being in 1891, [second] oldest of its kind in the U.S.”
As part of our mission, we seek to encourage future generations of journalists by annually awarding dedicated students with the Gertrude Gordon Memorial Fund scholarship.
We believe the group's mission is as important today as it was more than a century ago when the organization was founded in what was dubbed by a local newspaper as "crusty Pittsburgh."
"(The) hardest nut for women with a yen for newspapering to crack is newspaperdom’s crusty aversion to skirts flapping around city desks, nowhere harder to crack than in crusty Pittsburgh,” noted a 1940 article in the city’s Bulletin. "It was this problem which brought the Women’s Press Club of Pittsburgh into being in 1891, [second] oldest of its kind in the U.S.”
Email us at womenspressclubpgh@gmail.com