Cairo - Around 150 reporters, most of them working for state-owned newspapers and magazines, picketed Egypt's Dar al-Tahrir publishing house on Sunday to protest overdue benefits.
They claimed that the publisher paid high-level media workers, including the managing directors of its publications, outstanding benefits but refused to do the same for its reporters.
The journalists' strike came amid a series of workers' protests in Egypt in recent months.
Hundreds of textile factory workers, tax collectors, phone company employees and many others picketed their companies for better terms of employment in late 2007.
Observers deemed the scale and number of protests in Egypt a "rising phenomenon". - Sapa-dpa