12/13/2021

Nobel Winner: ‘We Journalists are the Defense Line Between Dictatorship and War’

Right now, it's happening in Russia

The last time a journalist won a Nobel prize was 1935. The journalist who won it – Carl von Ossietzky – had revealed how Hitler was secretly rearming Germany.

“And he couldn’t pick it up because he was languishing in a Nazi concentration camp,” said Maria Ressa over a video call from Manila.

Nearly a century on, Ressa is one of two journalists who will step onto the Nobel stage in Oslo next Friday. She is currently facing jail for “cyberlibel” in the Philippines while the other recipient Dmitry Muratov, the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, is standing guard over one of the last independent newspapers in an increasingly dictatorial Russia.

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