They try to instruct reporters about what everyone has just witnessed.

Judge Winiecki instructed reporters at the probable cause hearing not to disclose the boys' names; The New York Times had decided not to do so.

A police lieutenant instructed reporters not to take pictures.

Mr. Bart insisted that Ms. Busch's version was untrue and that he had instructed reporters to call the executive the night before publication so the news would not leak to other papers.

Andrew Rosenthal, the Washington editor at the time, instructed reporters to ask that everything be put on the record.

Rumors of a mysterious pneumonia had been coming out of the Guangdong region of southern China, but the Chinese authorities had been close lipped, even instructing local reporters to ignore it.

Back on the surface, Pennsylvania State Police were guarding the Quecreek mine site by 10:30 p.m., and instructed reporters to go to the local church for a press conference scheduled to occur later that night.

Mr. Barry sidestepped the question, instructing reporters to recognize the positive aspects of Washington, like a new arena under construction for the city's National Basketball Association and National Hockey League teams.

In-house memos instructed reporters and editors to "tell both sides of every story and take stories to the 'next level' of information."

The guild had instructed probationary reporters to continue working under protest.