Reporters in Hong Kong who were working for 21 Chinese-language newspapers were mailed questionnaires to elicit information on the following: how news organizations in a highly politicized environment exercise control on recruitment, policy direction with regard to the coverage of conflicting issues, and the resolution of possible conflicts between the press and journalists. Respondents were encouraged to return the questionnaire with the assurance of anonymity. The findings revealed that (1) political ideology of the press determines staff recruitment, policy governing the coverage of conflicting issues, and the resolution of conflicts between the press and journalists; (2) reporters are highly congruent with their employing organizations in terms of political ideology on a rightist-centrist-leftist continuum; (3) the party-owned press has a higher propensity to impose policy control over the coverage of social issues than the nonparty press; (4) reporters on occasion dispute policies; and (5) older reporters working in the party press tend to be more submissive to policy control than their counterparts in the nonparty press, and the more educated reporters are less compliant at both types of newspapers. (HOD)