{"id":418226,"date":"2021-12-04T18:05:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T18:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/04\/nobel-winner-we-journalists-are-the-defence-line-between-dictatorship-and-war"},"modified":"2021-12-04T18:05:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T18:05:32","slug":"nobel-winner-we-journalists-are-the-defence-line-between-dictatorship-and-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/12\/04\/nobel-winner-we-journalists-are-the-defence-line-between-dictatorship-and-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel winner: \u2018We journalists are the defence line between dictatorship and war\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next week, Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov receive their Nobel peace prizes. In a rare interview, Muratov says he fears the world is sliding towards fascism<\/p><p>The last time a journalist won a Nobel prize was 1935. The journalist who won it \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/prizes\/peace\/1935\/ossietzky\/biographical\/\" title=\"\">Carl von Ossietzky<\/a> \u2013 had revealed how Hitler was secretly rearming Germany. \u201cAnd he couldn\u2019t pick it up because he was languishing in a Nazi concentration camp,\u201d says Maria Ressa over a video call from Manila.<\/p><p>Nearly a century on, Ressa is one of two journalists who will<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/12\/a-triumph-of-truth-over-lies-joy-in-the-philippines-over-maria-ressas-nobel-prize-win\" title=\"\"> step onto the Nobel stage <\/a>in Oslo next Friday. She is currently facing jail for \u201ccyberlibel\u201d in the Philippines while the other recipient <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/08\/my-nobel-peace-prize-belongs-to-russias-murdered-journalists-says-dmitry-muratov\" title=\"\">Dmitry Muratov<\/a>, the editor-in-chief of <em>Novaya Gazeta<\/em>, is standing guard over one of the last independent newspapers in an increasingly dictatorial Russia.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/04\/nobel-winner-we-journalists-are-the-defence-line-between-dictatorship-and-war\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/04\/nobel-winner-we-journalists-are-the-defence-line-between-dictatorship-and-war\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next week, Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov receive their Nobel peace prizes. In a rare interview, Muratov says he fears the world is sliding towards fascismThe last time a journalist won a Nobel prize was 1935. The journalist who won it \u2013 Carl von Ossie&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10576,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8722,1207,471,37292,6,640,21278,94,702,10937,3332,796,653,24,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10576"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418227,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418226\/revisions\/418227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}