The rejection comes amid rising tensions between foreign news organizations and the Chinese government, which has been using various means to express displeasure with coverage it deems unflattering.
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Employees said Bloomberg News chose not to publish investigative articles about China’s leadership because of worries that it would be evicted from the country.
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Amid the Greek financial crisis, small radio stations, magazines and websites take a bigger role in the nation’s civic discussion.
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The New Express, a scrappy tabloid in Guangzhou, said its reporter had been detained while investigating the finances of China’s second-largest construction equipment maker.
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Rajpal Abeynayake stands atop his nation’s journalistic firmament with an uncritical boosterism of the government. He calls himself the Rush Limbaugh of Sri Lanka.
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Mr. Sein Win, who was the Yangon correspondent for The Associated Press from 1969 to 1989, was jailed three times during his career but lived long enough to see censorship lifted.
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Pierre Omidyar will finance the news site drawing Glenn Greenwald away from The Guardian, where he reported on the revelations by Edward Snowden.
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What appeared to be a low point in a long campaign to rein in reporters and chill their sources may turn out to be a very big blessing in disguise.
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The recent security and military leaks have received predictable criticism from the government, but a number of journalists have also lashed out at those who are closest to the stories.
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Disclosures made possible by digital media, government surveillance and unorthodox publishers have unsettled understandings of mass media’s place in American democracy.
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Edward Snowden and Pfc. Bradley Manning say they obeyed a moral imperative on behalf of the public, but the public is divided on whether that’s a good thing.
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Hamas closed news media offices and a television production company for what it called the spreading of false reports and working for Israeli television.
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The main opposition leader, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, accused Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan of cowing local news media into self-censorship.
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The new guidelines announced by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. would make it harder for prosecutors to obtain calling records from telephone companies without giving news organizations notice.
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Vanguardia, Ecuador’s only weekly newsmagazine, closed after the government passed a controversial media law that opponents say will stifle investigative journalism.
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The question of who is a journalist is important, partly because when it comes to divulging national secrets, the law grants journalists special protections that are afforded to no one else.
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Julian Assange and his organization, WikiLeaks, are being investigated by at least four United States government agencies, along with a grand jury that has subpoenaed witnesses.
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A Justice Department inquiry of a Fox News reporter has spurred outrage from some reliable critics of the press.
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The sites were blocked inside the country under a law that was enacted in September as opposition to King Abdullah II grew more outspoken.
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Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., under fire over investigative tactics at the Justice Department, has opened internal discussions over new limits on seeking information that could identify reporters’ sources.
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