SLPI partners with Colombo Hilton to launch Press Club
COLOMBO – The Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) signed an agreement with Hilton Colombo to set up a Press Club, which will host a range of activities and media related events. The agreement was signed last week between the Chairman of the SLPI Kumar Nadesan and the General Manager Hilton Colombo & Area General Manager Hilton Sri Lanka, Manesh Fernando.
Colombo Hilton will be the host-hotel for the Press Club’s activities which will include arranging 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)