{"id":39475,"date":"2021-12-05T03:05:32","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":"2021-12-05T03:05:32","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:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39475","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>\n<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>\n<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>\n<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&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","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":2103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1873,41,221,1431,53,86,240,238,671,672,1655,55,54,419,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexei-navalny","category-asia-pacific","category-europe","category-focus","category-human-rights","category-law","category-maria-ressa","category-media","category-newspapers","category-newspapers-magazines","category-nobel-peace-prize","category-philippines","category-press-freedom","category-russia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39476,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39475\/revisions\/39476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}