SLPI, Hilton – Colombo partner to launch ‘Press Club’

Signing of the Press Club agreement by Hilton – Colombo General Manager/ Hilton – SL Area General Manager Manesh Fernando (left) and SLPI Chairman Kumar Nadesan

Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) has partnered with the Hilton – Colombo to launch a ‘Press Club’.

An agreement was signed last week between SLPI Chairman Kumar Nadesan and Hilton – Colombo General Manager/ Hilton – SL Area General Manager Manesh Fernando.

Hilton – Colombo will be the host-hotel for the Press Club’s activities, which will include arranging for media-related events concerning visiting dignitaries and local personalities on current topics of national and international interest.

The Press Club will function under the SLPI, whose constituent partners are the Newspaper Society of Sri Lanka (NSSL), The Editors’ Guild of Sri Lanka (TEGOSL), the Free Media Movement (FMM), the Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association (SLWJA) with its affiliated partners Federation of Media Employees Trade Union (FMETU), Sri Lanka Muslim Media Forum (MMF), Tamil Media Alliance (TMA) and South Asia Free Media Association (SAFMA)