Journalists at the Southern Weekly, a Chinese newspaper from the Guangdong Province that has been described in the western press as "liberal" and "edgy", have staged a strike after an editorial was modified by government censors so as to praise the Communist party system. 

The reporters claim that more than 1,000 articles have been edited or censored by the government. 

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. – To launch “The Great Divide,” GlobalPost Special Reports dispatched correspondent Michael Moran from his home in London to this struggling city to explore the rising level of income inequality in America and the cost it carries.

Moran, a GlobalPost columnist and author of the recently published book, “The Reckoning: Debt, Democracy and the Future of American Power,” came of age here in Fairfield County, which has become one of the most unequal metropolitan areas in the United States. 

As part of GroundTruth’s video series, "the story behind the story," Moran provides his very personal take on the widening gap between the rich and the poor here, where he went to high school.

TUCSON, Arizona — It has too often been said that there are two sides to every story, but reporting on immigration from both sides of the fence in the sister border towns of Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Mexico infuses this maxim with fresh, more literal meaning.

For the deported Mexican and Central American migrants biding time at Kino Border Initiative's soup kitchen on the Mexico side and desperately planning an attempt to rejoin their families in the United States, American immigration laws seem unreasonably cruel and heavy-handed, the US Border Patrol predatory and abusive.

Everyone sees inequality differently.

This was the World Bank’s assumption, at least, when its Poverty Reduction and Equity department launched a contest last week that challenged participants to capture inequality in a photograph.

“Inequality is a very tough subject,” said Karin Rives, online communications officer for the World Bank’s poverty reduction and equity department. “I mean, how do you photograph that?”

Some submitted photographs of children. Some captured landscapes of poor neighborhoods next to rich estates. Some snapped pictures that showed extreme, desolate poverty. And most demonstrate a real, honest understanding of the GroundTruth they highlight.

The contest was launched on October 25 by the World Bank Group in order to spread information about the growing problem of inequality around the world. While alleviating poverty has always been the World Bank’s focus, Rives explained, recently the Bank has been focusing on inequality issues, because economists have found that as countries develop, inequality often rises. 

As a March 1 Foreign Policy article put it, “the big worry is that economic growth and inequality go together like doughnuts and heart attacks.”

And the World Bank seems to agree.