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The oldest press club in the world. Est. 1865
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Top Radio Breakfast Host to be Guest Speaker at Press Club
One of the UK’s top broadcast journalists, award-winning Nick Ferrari, is to be guest speaker at a Birmingham Press Club Celebrity Lunch on Friday 25 April, to be held at Park Regis Hotel, Birmingham, B15 1DT.
Tickets are priced at £70 each. Please make enquiry for payment to fbromwich@icloud.com and peter@brookesmedia.com
A three-course lunch will be preceded by a drinks reception from 12 noon to 12.30 pm.
Press Club president Bob Warman said: “Birmingham Press Club has always attracted speakers who are the titans of broadcasting and print. Nick Ferrari is right up there with them - a former showbiz editor and columnist, and for the last 20 years commanding the airwaves as the UK’s most talked about speech interviewer. Nick’s style is as seductive as it is powerful. A lunch event not to be missed.”
Nick, who this year celebrates 21 years as the host of LBC’s weekday breakfast show, is regarded as one of the nation’s most popular, respected and formidable speech broadcasters, being a champion of the radio phone-in where he puts his listeners in the driving seat to question and challenge those in government and leadership.
A journalist with a reputation as a straight-talking, tenacious broadcaster, he has over the past two decades interviewed thousands of national and world leaders from politics, business and entertainment.
Nick, also a regular on ITV’s This Morning programme, joined LBC – now the UK’s number one commercial news talk brand – in 2001 after a successful career in the national press, having been features editor of the News of the World’s Sunday magazine, editor of The Sun’s “Bizarre” page and assistant editor of the Daily Mirror.
He launched the brand-new Nick Ferrari at Breakfast show in 2004 – and is now the most-listened-to presenter on the station.
The Midlands Media Awards are back!
At a recent meeting the Board of Birmingham Press Club decided to revive the prestigious awards in 2025 - which is the club's 160th anniversary year.
The event will be held at a major Birmingham venue, to be announced later.
Categories include Journalist of the Year, TV Reporter of the Year and Photographer of the Year, plus many more.
The revival of the MMA is one of a number of events being planned to mark our 160th anniversary, so watch the website to get updates.
Watch this space!
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Who are we?
Birmingham Press Club was formed in 1865 and is the oldest press club in the world.
Over the decades the club has had thousands of members including many prestigious personalities from the world of Midlands journalism.
You can read more about the history of the club in the About Us section.
Our Events
Nowadays the club has members across a wide range of media and business including newspapers, radio, television, public relations, marketing, accountancy, the legal profession and more. This represents a first-class pool of contacts and excellent opportunities for networking at our many events.
These events include monthly get-togethers (free drinks for members!), a series of debates on media matters and our famous Christmas Lunch, usually held at a Birmingham venue.
Our Awards
However, our biggest event is the annual Midlands Media Awards.
We attract entries from Lincolnshire in the east to Shropshire and Herefordshire in the west, Staffordshire in the north to Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire in the south and everywhere in between.
Categories include newspapers, radio, television and PR.
We also organise the annual Midlands Media Students Awards aimed at students taking media degrees and awards at Midlands universities and Further Education colleges. Many of our winners and Highly Commended students have secured their first jobs having come to prominence in these prestigious awards.