In the last decade of Mr Mubarak's 30-year rule, Egypt's privately owned press began to overtake the stodgy state-owned media.
The state owns the land it needs.
Private TV channels now venture into the previously forbidden realm of news coverage, and workers in the state-owned press have managed to eject editors appointed by Mr Mubarak.
In Ethiopia, a firm has to place a costly announcement in the state-owned press.
He may be an American or even an Iranian agent, hint editorials in Egypt's state-owned press.
It will find it harder against an opponent who controls the army, police and state-owned press, as well as holding the government's purse-strings.
Civil society actors are using the media network in Vietnam - from the state-owned press to the increasingly vocal blogosphere - to advocate for policy change on land rights.
The Egyptian president, Mohammed Morsi, has discussed the Syria crisis with his Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian state-owned Press TV reports.
According to the state-owned press, several of these companies design chips, including one based in Texas that was founded with the help of a former Texas classmate.
Usually, government troops have then withdrawn, taking "terrorist" prisoners with them but leaving behind only token checkpoints.More recently, the state-owned press has spoken ominously of the need to shift away from what it terms "restraint".
Since he gave up accountancy eight years ago to found an alternative to Zambia's state-owned press, he has been in and out of more dingy police cells than he can remember.
