Beijing ? A Chinese newspaper supplement known for hard-hitting coverage of sensitive issues will resume publishing more than a month after being shut down, but its two top editors were fired, one of the editors said Thursday.

The closure of Bing Dian, a four-page weekly supplement of the China Youth Daily, was seen as part of the communist government’s efforts to tighten control over the media.

Though no official reason was given for the shutdown in late January, editor-in-chief Li Datong has said it was the culmination of ongoing tensions over the paper’s content.

Li met with newspaper officials Thursday and said afterward he and deputy editor Lu Yuegang had been removed from their posts and transferred to the News Research Institute, another department of the China Youth Daily. He said the supplement will resume publication March 1.

As part of the deal to reopen, Bing Dian also will have to run an article criticizing a previously published essay by Yuan Weishi, who complained of a political bias in the way that Chinese textbooks present 19th century history.