Thirty global news organizations have teamed up to oppose sports groups looking to impose rules on how events are covered, contending that the attempts to set rules represent a serious threat to press freedom. The alliance, which is comprised of news companies, press associations, news agencies and journalist groups, includes the World Association of Newspapers, the Association of International News Agencies, the Society of Editors, the European Publishers Council and the European Newspapers Publishers Assn. The move comes as major sports organizations have set increasingly strict regulations on coverage of their events. They include demands -- later lifted -- by the organizers of last year's soccer World Cup in Germany that news agencies and newspaper Web sites could only publish pictures from games two hours after the final whistle.
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