Meanings of kept journalists in English

It's street to street fighting. Authorities have kept journalists away from Zawiyah.

Security guards posted on the pavement in front of the house in the capital Pretoria kept journalists away.

Army checkpoints kept journalists at bay.

Police and soldiers surrounded the main hospital and kept journalists out of Republic Square, the site of the protest on Male's northern seafront.

On that occasion, the government and the Nelson Mandela Foundation kept journalists largely in the dark about his treatment, initially described as routine testing.

Police kept journalists away from the tent camp, set up by Turkey's Red Crescent five weeks ago on the grounds of a disused tobacco factory.