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Published: Jan. 9, 2013 at 9:44 AM

GUANGZHOU, China, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- A deal in a censorship dispute was reached between leaders of China's Communist Party and the staff at a popular publication, officials said Wednesday.

One journalist working for the Guangzhou publication at the center of the dispute, said reporters were told the newspaper would publish as usual Thursday, The New York Times reported.

Journalists at Southern Weekend, one of China's most audacious and popular publications, threatened to strike over a New Year's editorial on political reform that was censored and rewritten by a local propaganda official.

While the exact terms of the compromise weren't released, indications were that journalists agreed not to publicly voice their grievances about Tuo Zhen, the propaganda chief for Guangdong province, whom they accused of censorship, the Los Angeles Times reported.

"The paper is coming out tomorrow, and the propaganda department is going to hold a meeting with staff about this tomorrow," a journalist told the Times.

Other reporters said details of the agreement remained were sketchy and that it may collapse.

The Los Angeles Times said the editor of the Beijing News reportedly resigned Wednesday after refusing to run an editorial condemning the protest at Southern Weekly and editors at other news organizations may be removed from their posts because of the issue.

Protesters gathered again Wednesday outside of the newspaper's headquarters in Guangzhou.

As celebrities and business leaders supported press freedoms online, senior propaganda officials in Beijing this week began rolling out a national strategy to rake rebel journalists and their supporters over the coals, The New York Times said. The Central Propaganda Department issued a directive to news organizations saying defiance at Southern Weekend involved "hostile foreign forces."

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After Southern Weekly exposed the meddling of Guangdong #39;s propaganda chief in their newspaper, Chinese citizens began to protest. In a rare display of tolerance, the Chinese regime let the protests happen. Now however, it appears they are starting to clamp down. According to China Digital Times, a website operated by students at the University of California, China #39;s Central Propaganda Department issued this notice to media outlets around the country on Monday. After asserting that the Communist Party must control the media, the directive blames, quote, "external hostile forces", for the escalating situation. The directive then orders media outlets to repost this editorial by state-run Global Times. opinion.huanqiu.com The article claims free media cannot exist under China #39;s current political climate. And again points to overseas forces for fanning the protest. The piece has been derided online. Some news portals did repost it mdash;but with a clear disclaimer that the views are not their own. news.qq.com Outside the headquarters of the Southern Media Group on Tuesday, supporters have continued to gather for a second day. This man in a wheelchair holds a sign that reads: "Support Southern Weekly. No More news censorship. Give me back my freedom of speech." A minor scuffle broke out between these demonstrators, and this smaller group. They #39;re here to support the Communist Party and quote "the crackdown of traitor media." Officially, Chinese leaders have not responded to the ...

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STORY HIGHLIGHTS

(CNN) -- Crowds gathered at the headquarters of a Chinese newspaper on Monday, in support of a rare protest by journalists against alleged government censorship.

The journalists at the Southern Weekly paper, based in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, claim that an editorial calling for political reform was censored by and re-written as a tribute to Communist Party rule.

Photos published by the South China Morning Post and circulated on China's most popular microblogging site Sina Weibo showed dozens of people gathering outside the paper's headquarters, some holding posters calling for press freedom.

One journalist from Southern Media Group, which owns Southern Weekly, told CNN that colleagues joined the protest to express their outrage.

"We stand up now because we were pushed to the limit," the journalist, who asked to remain anonymous, said.

Some journalists have threatened to strike. If it goes ahead, it would be the first time an editorial staff of a major Chinese newspaper has openly staged a strike in more than two decades, the South China Morning Post reported.

The controversy emerged last week when a group of former Southern Weekly journalists said, in an open letter, that a local propaganda chief had dramatically altered the paper's traditional New Year message, according to a translation published by the China Media Project at Hong Kong University.

While newspapers in China are often subject to censorship, the journalists wrote in the letter that the changes were excessive, and took place after editors had signed off on the final proofs.

The letter also said that the official had introduced factual errors.

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