China is yet to live up to its Olympic pledge of free media access. Findings from a survey by the Foreign Correspondents Club of China show that government interference is still commonplace for overseas journalists, while Reporters Without Borders, the Committee for the Protection of Journalists and other rights groups, all highlight the dangerous position of domestic journalists.

Organisers of the Olympic Games in Beijing have promised that foreign journalists can travel freely around China, interview who they want and enjoy uncenscored access to the Internet during the Games. New freer regulations on reporting in China up to and during the Olympics came into force on 1 January 2007 but the application of the new rules show that there is still some way between promises and reality.

Millions of pounds are in the pool when the Premier League and YouTube take their fight to court. Claiming that YouTube has violated copyright law, the Premier League hopes to get a lucrative deal. YouTube says that the Premier League has misunderstood the law.

Now you can do your own analysis of the world’s most comprehensive data so far on the international sports press. On a new theme page, we publish the full data sheet and bring brand new analysis of the International Sport Press Survey 2005 that included 10,000 articles from the sports pages in 37 newspapers in 10 countries.

Each month brings fresh examples of how organisers of sport events try to limit media coverage. But is it sound business or a breach of freedom of the press when the Australian Football League refuses accreditation to overseas news agencies and the International Rugby Board restricts the use of photos from the Rugby Union World Cup? In the end, the question may be superseded by what sponsors think.

Julu Johnson, a sports editor for the Liberian newspaper News, was physically attacked by the deputy secretary general of the Liberia Football Association (LFA) when he went to cover LFA’s recent extra-ordinary congress. The attack took place in full public view of all the delegates.

When thousands of athletes from 42 countries meet at the Pan American Games in Brazil in July this year, athletes will be forbidden to update their blogs or websites during the competition. There will also be restrictions on broadcast of live images on the internet.

Rafael Serra, a reporter from Radio Gaucha in Brazil, was beaten up by fans from the Gremio football club when he went to cover the arrival of the team's new goalkeeper in the airport of Porto Alegre.