The 2021 Nobel Peace Prize goes to Maria Ressa e Dmitry Muratov. Both were rewarded “for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace”. Maria Ressa is one of the founders of Rappler, a Filipino investigative journalism site that chronicles the abuses of power, the use of violence and the growing authoritarianism in the country especially in the drug war of President Rodrigo Duterte. Dimitri Muratov, is the current managing editor of Novaya Gazeta, the independent voice of Putin’s Russia, Anna Politkovskaya’s newspaper, killed in 2006.
Dmitry Muratov – awarded the 2021 #NobelPeacePrize – has for decades defended freedom of speech in Russia under increasingly challenging conditions. In 1993, he was one of the founders of the independent newspaper Novaja Gazeta, @novaya_gazeta.#NobelPrize pic.twitter.com/AXF8a3CDGZ
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 8, 2021
The Peace Prize is the only one awarded by the Oslo committee. This year there were over 300 candidates. The bookmakers’ quotations are still wrong Greta Thunberg as a favorite, followed by the World Health Organization. In third place Alexei Navalny and Reporters Sans Frontieres. Followed by Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, the Belarusian candidate who challenged Alexander Lukashenko in the elections, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
#NobelPrize laureate Maria Ressa uses freedom of expression to expose abuse of power, use of violence and growing authoritarianism in her native country, the Philippines. In 2012, she co-founded Rappler, @rapplerdotcom, a digital media company for investigative journalism. pic.twitter.com/C8W8NBqY7T
— The Nobel Prize (@NobelPrize) October 8, 2021
Even if the names are not as expected, a fundamental issue in Fake News times was clearly rewarded, that of freedom of information. “An award for press freedom in environments hostile to independent journalism,” said Riccardo Noury, spokesperson for Amnesty International Italia.
The Chairman of the Berit Reiss-Andersen Committee he explained that they deserved the award “for their courageous struggle for freedom of expression in the Philippines and Russia”. «They represent all the journalists who are committed to this ideal in a world that places conditions that are increasingly adverse to democracy and freedom of the press. A free, independent and fact-based journalism protects against abuse of power, lies, propaganda ». The last journalist to win was Carl von Ossietzky, in 1935, he revealed the plan to rearm Germany.
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