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The author looks at the early history of the fight for press freedom in the U.S., focusing on the newspaper "Publick Occurrences: Both Forreign and Domestick" published by Benjamin Harris in Boston, Massachusetts in 1690, which it notes was shut down by the Massachusetts Bay Colony government.

The article reports that a January 2013 controversy regarding purported press censorship in China has moved to the newspaper "Beijing News," after beginning at the paper "Southern Weekly," when government propaganda officials made the Beijing, China paper to reprint a pro-government editorial.

The article reports on the plans of Tribune Co. and "New York Daily News" to outsource international coverage due to decreasing revenue that is causing more U.S. papers to lessen their international news. Tribune Co. has plans of paying Washington Post Co. for national and foreign news for its eight major dailies. It has been said that the "New York Daily News" has a deal with "GlobalPost" to utilize the company's network of part-time foreign correspondents.

This article reports on the plan of Associated Press to reduce its workforce by 10% or about 400 jobs in 2009. According to chief executive Tom Curley, the downturn forcing massive cuts across the AP's member newspapers and other media organizations has taken a toll on the cooperative. He hoped to achieve most of the reductions through attrition.

The article reports on the plan of Associated Press (AP) to slash a further $9 million from its total membership fees. It states that the move comes as advertising-challenged member newspapers stated their displeasure over the prices of the news-gathering cooperative. Gary Graham of "Spokesman-Review" says that the move will prompt them to rethink their plan to drop the news service by the end of 2008.

The article announces the option of newspaper chain Tribune Co. to drop its contract with the Associated Press (AP), which signaled the growing division between the news cooperative. An account of the contract between the two companies is provided, highlighting Tribune's issuance of a notice that entitles them to drop their contract with AP by 2010. The alleged rift between Tribune and AP started because of the overpricing done by AP.

The author comments on the criticism drawn by an English-language publication group consisting of the "DAWN" newspaper for exposing the failure of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in dealing with the country's security situation. He discusses how the criticism led to the loss of the newspaper's advertising revenues. He recounts the incident that led to the criticism. He cites the relation between free press and democracy.

The article reports on the effort of the Newspaper Guild-Communications Workers of America to pull together a buyout of nine newspapers owned by Knight Ridder Inc.

Focuses on the mass media in the African nation of Rwanda. Number managing editors in the three-year history of Rwanda's only independent newspaper, "Umuseso," noting that previous editors fled in exile after receiving death threats or being arrested because the paper criticized the government; Comments from Charles Kabonero, the current managing editor, regarding the government's crackdown on the newspaper; Number of Rwandans killed during a civil war in 1994 by the majority Hutu group; Role of the media in inciting the violence directed at the Tutsi minority; Efforts of the existing government led by Paul Kagame, a Tutsi rebel who overthrew the previous regime, to stifle the media.

Reports that Detroit's newspaper workers who are striking said they are starting their own newspaper. Reasons; Funding; Detroit News, Detroit Free Press conflict with employees; Details.