According to the Press Gazette, the rules also ban newspaper journalists producing any audiovisual reports from venues and bar newspaper websites from running extracts of broadcast footage.
The news organisations have threatened to remove the sponsors’ names from images if the dispute is not resolved, the report said.
Kier Radnedge, chairman of the football commission of the International Sports Writers Association, said: “There are certain measures that newspapers can take as far as graphics and the visibility of sponsors' names is concerned. That's what's happened in football in the past in terms of shirt logos being blocked out and promotional boards being blocked out."
Representatives of the Newspaper Publishers Association and 40 news media groups worldwide met the IRB in Dublin last Tuesday to persuade world rugby’s governing body to back down.
