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News organizations cultivate a reputation for demanding transparency, whether by suing for access to government documents, dispatching camera crews to the doorsteps of recalcitrant politicians, or editorializing in favor of open government.

But now many of the country’s biggest media companies — which own dozens of newspapers and TV news operations — are flexing their muscle in Washington in a fight against a government initiative to increase transparency of political spending.

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The List

• News Corporation, which owns the Wall Street Journal and Fox News

• Walt Disney, which owns ABC News and ESPN

• NBCUniversal, which is owned by Comcast and includes NBC News

• Allbritton, which owns several TV stations and Politico

• Gannett Broadcasting, a division of Gannett, which owns USA Today

• Post-Newsweek Stations, the broadcast division of the Washington Post Company

• Belo Corp, which owns 20 TV stations

• Cox Media Group, which owns the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Austin American-Statesman, and other newspapers and TV stations

• Dispatch Broadcast Group, which owns Ohio and Indiana TV stations

• Barrington Broadcasting, which owns several TV stations around the country

• The EW Scripps Company, which owns TV stations and newspapers including the Commercial Appeal in Memphis

• Hearst Television Inc, which owns 29 TV stations

• Raycom Media, which owns TV stations

• Schurz Communications, which owns TV Stations and newspapers around the country