Maria Ressa: Nobel prize-winner risks life and liberty to hold Philippines government to account

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Maria Ressa: Nobel prize-winner risks life and liberty to hold Philippines government to account

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 Maria Ressa and Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov. The Nobel Peace Prize 2021  [Image: Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach]
Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Andreyevich Muratov were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2021

Tom Smith is principal lecturer in international relations & academic director of the Royal Air Force College Cranwell at University of Portsmouth

The importance of journalists who take considerable risks to bring people the truth in countries where this involves going up against authoritarian go, Maria Ressa. The Nobel Peace Prize 2021 [Image: Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach]