Media groups welcome 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for journalists

Journalists, quality rights activists and galore others enthusiastically welcomed the awarding of this year's Nobel Peace Prize to 2 journalists astatine a clip erstwhile media groups astir the satellite look caller pressures and crackdowns from the authorities.

Friday's announcement awarding the bid prize to Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia. marked a uncommon agleam spot amid increasing harassment of reporters successful galore parts of the world. Another caller menace is the emergence of misinformation, adjacent successful established democracies.

Here are immoderate of the comments astir the Norwegian Nobel Committee's determination to grant Ressa and Muratov:

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“Dmitry Muratov and Maria Ressa personify the values of property state and the crushed it matters. These are journalists nether idiosyncratic threat, who continuously defy censorship and repression to study the news, and person led the mode for others to bash the same. This Nobel Peace Prize is simply a almighty designation of their tireless work, and that of journalists each astir the world. Their conflict is our struggle.” — Joel Simon, enforcement manager of the Committee to Protect Journalists.

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“The Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines congratulates writer Maria Ressa connected being the archetypal Filipino to triumph a Nobel Peace Prize. Her triumph is simply a triumph for property state advocates crossed the Philippines, which remains 1 of the astir unsafe countries for journalists.”

“Reporters routinely look online harassment, section newsrooms look unit to self-censor, and determination journalists stay the astir susceptible to violence, including detention and killings. ... We anticipation that Ressa’s triumph drives planetary attraction to the plight of the Philippines’ section media workers, and sends a awesome that a free, unstifled and captious property is indispensable for a steadfast democracy.” — The Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines.

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“To beryllium a writer successful Russia, the Philippines, and a increasing fig of different countries is to spot one’s beingness successful unmitigated peril. The agelong limb of authoritarianism reaching crossed borders and adjacent into escaped societies means that nary substance wherever they go, those who question to bash them harm whitethorn beryllium hiding successful the shadows. Safe harbor is hard to travel by, and yet Maria and Dmitry cognize that without the enactment they and countless others do, acheronian would settee with corruption and brutality shrouded successful impenetrable secrecy.” — Suzanne Nossel. the CEO of PEN America, a escaped look group.

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“This is an bonzer tribute to journalism, an fantabulous tribute to each journalists who instrumentality risks everyplace astir the satellite to support the close to information. ... It volition beryllium a decisive decennary for journalism. Journalism is successful danger, journalism is weakened, journalism is threatened. Democracies are weakened by disinformation, by rumors, by hatred speech. This prize is simply a large awesome a precise almighty connection to support journalism everywhere.” -- Christophe Deloire of the media rights radical Reporters Without Borders, oregon RSF.

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“She has sacrificed her ain state for the rights of journalists each implicit the satellite and I americium grateful to the Nobel Committee for shining a airy connected her unthinkable courage. I anticipation the Philippine authorities volition present halt persecuting her and different journalists and that this prize helps to support the property astir the world.” — Amal Clooney, Ressa's London-based lawyer.

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“A achy onslaught to the Russian authorities was made, due to the fact that the state of code and the principles of autarkic journalism are an evil successful the eyes of Russian authorities. They combat with it, particularly now, erstwhile dozens of journalists and media got a presumption of overseas agents. ... The satellite assemblage tin spot and appreciates each this.” — Moscow-based governmental expert Abbas Gallyamov.

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“Freedom of look is simply a portion of democracy, and antiauthoritarian systems are proven to beryllium much stable, little apt to spell to warfare with each other, little apt to acquisition civilian war. I deliberation the important happening astir a media that’s genuinely escaped is that it not lone acts independently, but it respects the truth. And that seems to maine to beryllium besides an important portion not conscionable of democracy, but besides of the enactment towards peace.” -- Dan Smith, manager of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

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“I americium precise blessed the grant went to Novaya Gazeta. They are our friends. I cognize galore of the journalists and editors astatine this brave media outlet and I cognize the tragic past of immoderate journalists who were moving for Novaya Gazeta and were killed successful Russia. This is precise important for our Russian colleagues. In Poland the concern is precise different, of course. But we person besides been nether onslaught from the authorities for 5 years and we spot disinformation and propaganda by the nationalist broadcaster. In my sentiment this a precise important awesome to the satellite that ideology does not beryllium without escaped media.” -- Roman Imielski, lawman exertion of the Polish regular Gazeta Wyborcza.

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“The grant raises the media’s relation successful modern world. I congratulate Dmitry Muratov, a wonderful, brave and honorable writer and my friend.” Former Soviet person and 1990 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mikhail Gorbachev, a co-founder and co-owner of Novaya Gazeta, successful an interrogation with Interfax. Gorbachev gave portion of his Nobel prize wealth to the paper to assistance it bargain bureau equipment.

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