Newspaper article about journalists being tyrannised (9)
I believe the answer is:
oppressed
'being tyrannised' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'newspaper article about journalists' is the wordplay.
'newspaper article' becomes 'op-ed'.
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'journalists' becomes 'press' (I've seen this before).
'oped' going around 'press' is 'OPPRESSED'.
(Other definitions for oppressed that I've seen before include "Downtrodden" , "Burdened, physically or mentally" , "Kept in subjection" , "Governed harshly, weighed down" , "Persecuted, burdened" .)