Fearless, fair journalism honors, Nobel Peace Prize to two journalists

Maria Ressa, a journalist from the Philippines, and Dmitry Muratov, a journalist from Russia, have been awarded the 2021 Peace Prize. He will be honored with this highest award for his long struggle for freedom of expression. The struggle for freedom of expression has angered the authorities, but they have continued their struggle.

Norway's Nobel Committee announced the recognition on Friday by Barrett Race Anderson. He said that in order to protect free and factual journalism, the duo fought against abuse of power, lies and war propaganda. A good world cannot be created without freedom of expression and press, brotherhood between countries, disarmament. The pair were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to protect freedom of expression, which is essential for democracy and peace.

In 2012, Maria Resa founded the digital media news agency, Rappler, against the dictatorship in the Philippines. He spoke out against the controversial regime of President Rodrigo Duterte. There has been a great fight against the dangerous use of drugs. How the social media spreads false news, how the opposition is being persecuted. Public discussion is well-directed. The number of drug-related deaths in that country is very high. He fought against that.

Dmitry Musratov began the fight for freedom of expression during a challenging period in Russia. In 1993, he founded the independent newspaper Novaja Gazeta. It is an impartial newspaper and sheds light on many aspects of Russian society that have not come to light due to its factual and professional journalism. He always criticized the authorities and did factual journalism. He criticized corruption, political violence, illegal arrests, election irregularities, and convoys of snipers used by the Russian military. Six people in his newspaper were killed for covering the war in Chechnya. That included Anna Politkovskaya. Despite receiving death threats, Muratov flatly refused to change the newspaper's independent policy, Anderson said.