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The University Press Club is a select group of undergraduate students at Princeton University who are passionate about journalism and are dedicated to their craft. Members write and report professionally for regional and national publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post and Vox.
The club was founded in 1900, making it one of the oldest student organizations at Princeton University.
Our commitment to journalism
For more than a century, members of the Princeton University Press Club have acted as "Princeton correspondents" for news publications, magazines, wire services, and broadcast media. Our professional relationships include agreements with regional, national, and global publications. All Press Club members are paid for their work. We also host talks and social events and with prominent figures in journalism, academia, and politics to enrich our members’ experience.
Dean’s Date Live Blog
Twice a year, members of the University Press Club gather to update a live blog 24hours before Dean’s Date. There, you will find witty updates about Dean’s Date traditions like the Whitman Wail and the Holder Howl, humorous snippets of their inner thoughts and funny memes members come up with as they finish up their last papers!
Find our latest Dean’s Date Blog here.
Rukeyser Memorial Lecture Series
The University Press Club invites prominent journalists that are shaping today’s media landscape to speak at Princeton University and share advice with students. Past speakers include Jill Abramson formerly with The New York Times, David Remnick ’81 from The New Yorker, Evan Thomas from Newsweek, Jim Kelly ’76 from Time, and Todd Purdum ’82 from Vanity Fair.
UPC Reunions
Every spring, during Reunions UPC alumni and club members gather on campus to commemorate their time at the club, connect with each other and share their love of journalism!
Our Traditions
UPC Through The Centuries
Our alumnus and board member, Brook Stoddard '05, dedicated his senior thesis in the History department to documenting the long history of the Press Club. These are some of the many archival mementos he dug up during his research, copies of which now sit in a box in our office. Special thanks to him for sharing these photos and captions with the Club!
The Daily Princetonian reported the official founding of the University Press Club in April 1900.
Before there was e-mail, there were telegrams. Robert Alford ’36 received this one while covering the Veterans of Future Wars controversy.
During the mid-1930s, the Press Club met and worked in a back room of the Western Union office at Nassau Street and Witherspoon Street. Seated from L to R: Carl W. Peterson ’36, Walter W. Merrill ’36, Edward H. Peplow ’36, Kelvin M. Fox ’35, and Robert H. Alford ’36. Standing: Robert G. Barnes ’37, Samuel G.Welles Jr. ’35, Mark A. Beltaire III ’37, Samuel P. Walker ’35, Frederick S. Osborne’24, and Warman K. Welliver ’34