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Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov win Nobel peace prize

Filipina and Russian given 2021 award as organisers warn of threat to independent media worldwide

  • Nobel peace prize 2021 – live reaction

Campaigning journalists from the Philippines and Russia have won the 2021 Nobel peace prize as the Norwegian committee recognised the vital importance of an independent media to democracy and warned it was increasingly under assault.

Maria Ressa, the chief executive and cofounder of Rappler, and Dmitry Muratov, the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, were named as this year’s laureates by Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chair of the Norwegian Nobel committee.

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