The constitution of the PFUJ was first adopted in Karachi in April 1950 at the Pakistan Working Journalists Convention, in a meeting opened by Muhammad Zafarullah Khan.
Muhammad Abdul Shakoor became the first president and Israr Ahmad (journalist) its first secretary general.
In 2025, Shakeel Ahmed was elected as Secretary General and Rana Muhammad Azeem Was Elected as the President of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists In Feb 2014, a merger of PFUJ and All Pakistan Newspaper Employees Confederation (APNEC) was announced to consolidate and strengthen the two journalism organisations.
[2] When Express Tribune journalist Bilal Farooqi was arrested for alleged hateful and anti-military social media posts in September 2020, PFUJ condemned the arrest together with the International Federation of Journalists.
[3] In 2020, Shahzada Zulfiqar was the PFUJ president and Nasir Zaidi was the secretary general.