Champions of press freedom to accept Nobel Peace Prize

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Today, Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia, two champions of the free press, will receive this year's Nobel Peace Prize honouring a profession under attack.

Ressa, co-founder of the news website Rappler, and Muratov, chief editor of the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, won the Nobel Prize in early October for "their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression."

Malabanan, who also worked for the Reuters news agency, had reported on the sensitive subject of the war on drugs in the country. Currently on bail pending an appeal against a conviction last year in a cyber libel case, she had to apply to four courts for permission to travel to Norway for Friday's ceremony.Meanwhile, 60-year-old Muratov heads one of the rare independent newspapers in a Russian media landscape largely under state control.

"But actually... I don't think we will get this label. We have some other risks though," Muratov added. "Reporting the news should cease to be a deadly activity," the organisation's secretary general Christophe Deloire said as he presented the report this week.

 

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