The Philippino-American, founder of the investigative media “Report”, and Russian, editor-in-chief of “Novaïa Gazeta”, have been rewarded Friday.
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Through them, it is the journalism and the freedom of information that the committee in Oslo wanted to reward. Friday, October 8, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Philippino-American journalist Maria Rena, founder of the investigation media report, and to the editor of the Russian Independent Journal Novaïa Gazeta, Dmitry Mouratov, for “their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a prerequisite for democracy and sustainable peace “.
Inlaid fighters of the freedom to inform, the two winners are “the representatives of all journalists who defend this ideal in a world where democracy and freedom of the press are faced with increasingly unfavorable conditions” , said the president of the Norwegian Committee, Beit Reiss-Andersen. “Free, independent and factual journalism is used to protect against abuses of power, lies and war propaganda,” she added.
58 years old, Journalist Maria Rêna was attending an online symposium on independent journalism in Southeast Asia when the news fell. “It’s all for us, I’m in shock. It’s a recognition of how difficult it can be to be a journalist,” she reacted live, very moved. Born in the Philippines, Maria resa lived in the United States from the age of 10. She returned to Manila in 1986, where she became correspondent of CNN in 1995.
Crusade
Crowning this journalist of a rare pugnacity, the Nobel committee pays tribute to the crusade it has been leading six years against the abuse of President Rodrigo Dutete, with the site report, a media that she founded with Three other women journalists and she is the leader in Manila. In particular illustrated by its covering of the murderer for the drug from the populist leader.
In October 2016, Maria Rena published A series of surveys on how trolls, fake news and false accounts have favored the accession to the power of Rodrigo Duterte. She denounced before the hour a “death strategy by a thousand cuts” which uses the strength of the internet and exploits the algorithms fueling social media to sow confusion and doubt “. In 2018, Facebook acknowledged that Cambridge Analytica, the British Communications Council firm, had used the data of hundreds of thousands of Filipino without their agreement – the second contingent of pirated users after the Americans.
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