The News Media Coalition (NMC) is a group of international news agencies

News agency

A news agency is an organization of journalists established to supply news reports to news organizations: newspapers, magazines, and radio and television broadcasters. Such an agency may also be referred to as a wire service, newswire or news service.-History:The oldest news agency is Agence...

 and publications

Newspaper

A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...

 that is focused on preserving freedom of the press

Freedom of the press

Freedom of the press or freedom of the media is the freedom of communication and expression through vehicles including various electronic media and published materials...

. It consists of over fifty news organizations, including founder members

• Agence France-Presse
  Agence France-Presse
  Agence France-Presse is a French news agency, the oldest one in the world, and one of the three largest with Associated Press and Reuters. It is also the largest French news agency. Currently, its CEO is Emmanuel Hoog and its news director Philippe Massonnet...
  
   (AFP)
• Associated Press
  Associated Press
  The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...
  
   (AP)
• Deutsche Presse-Agentur
  Deutsche Presse-Agentur
  Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH is a news agency founded in 1949 in Germany. Based in Hamburg, it has grown to be a major worldwide operation serving print media, radio, television, online, mobile phones, and national news agencies. News is available in German, English, Spanish, and Arabic.The DPA...
  
   (dpa)
• European Newspaper Publishers Association
  European Newspaper Publishers Association
  The European Newspaper Publishers' Association is an international, non-profit, advocating the interests of the European newspaper publishing industry at different European and international organisations and institutions...
  
   (ENPA)
• European Press Photo Agency
• European Publishers Council
• Getty Images
  Getty Images
  Getty Images, Inc. is a stock photo agency, based in Seattle, Washington, USA. It is a supplier of stock images for business and consumers with an archive of 80 million still images and illustrations and more than 50,000 hours of stock film footage...
  
  
• News International
  News International
  News International Ltd is the United Kingdom newspaper publishing division of News Corporation. Until June 2002, it was called News International plc....
  
  
• Reuters
  Reuters
  Reuters is a news agency headquartered in New York City. Until 2008 the Reuters news agency formed part of a British independent company, Reuters Group plc, which was also a provider of financial market data...
  
  
• World Association of Newspapers
  World Association of Newspapers
  The World Association of Newspapers is a non-profit, non-governmental organization made up of 76 national newspaper associations, 12 news agencies, 10 regional press organisations and individual newspaper executives in 100 countries...
  
   (WAN)

During the 2007-08 and 2008-09 seasons, disputes between Cricket Australia

Cricket Australia

Cricket Australia, formerly known as the Australian Cricket Board, is the governing body for professional and amateur cricket in Australia. It was originally formed in 1905 as the Australian Board of Control for International Cricket...

and the Coalition over restrictions to media rights lead to the AP, AFP, and Reuters suspending all coverage of cricket in Australia.