Players in the confrontation that convulsed China in 1989 have long wondered how differently events might have played out without a truculent editorial that appeared in People’s Daily on April 26 that year.
Mam Sonando, described by his supporters as Cambodia’s only truly independent radio broadcaster, says he is fighting to “protect people who have been victimized.”
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President Nicolás Maduro said that the channel, Colombia-based NTN24, had tried to “foment anxiety about a coup d’état.”
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Two more sponsors of the United States Olympic team condemned the law, but leading global sponsors did not join them.
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Activists protesting antigay policies in Russia have tried to turn Olympic promotions by major companies to their own purposes.
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Some stories that Bloomberg runs are considered too sensitive to run in China, raising questions about a clash of journalistic ideals with commercial interests.
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Employees of ERT, the former state broadcaster, had occupied its headquarters since the government shut it down in June, prompting a political crisis.
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A military court convicted Ahmed Abu Deraa of entering a military zone without authorization, but postponed his sentence indefinitely, a mixed decision in a test of media freedom.
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In the clip of Gen. Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi and senior officers before the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi, the officers discuss pressuring the media into “self-censorship.”
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Mick Deane, a cameraman for Sky News who was shot on Wednesday, was the first Western reporter to die on assignment in Egypt since the Committee to Protect Journalists started keeping such records in the 1990s.
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The authorities shuttered some television stations, and the tone of some state news media also seemed to shift, to reflect the interests of those now in charge.
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Sites that attract at least 50,000 visitors a month are now required to obtain annual licenses and must remove any content considered objectionable by the government within 24 hours of notification.
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As protesters took to the streets across the nation, Turkish TV channels stuck to scheduled programming, and people turned to social media to find out what was going on.
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All but one of the channels are aligned with Sunni financial backers, and the Iraqi government said the channels were inciting sectarian conflict.
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Tim Tracy, who was arrested on Wednesday, is accused of plotting to destabilize Venezuela and promoting civil war.
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The anticorruption blogger Aleksei A. Navalny is trying to etch a lasting image in the public imagination before his trial on embezzlement charges begins Wednesday.
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