Norwegian Nobel Committee stressed that a free and independent press is essential to achieving and maintaining peace in the world.“Free, independent and fact-based journalism serves to protect against abuse of power, lies and war propaganda,” committee chair Berit Reiss-Andersen said.
Ressa, who co-founded the digital investigative site Rappler in 2012, was credited by the committee for her work to expose the “abuse of power, use of violence and growing authoritarianism in her native country.”Muratov, a staunch defender of freedom of speech in Russia under the increasingly authoritarian government of Vladimir Putin, co-founded the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta in 1993 and he has served as top editor since 1995.
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