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A timely reminder of why we all need a free Press
Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov were hardly household names in the West before they shared the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize last week, but they deserve to be.
Ressa, who co-founded the news website Rappler, was praised for using freedom of expression to “expose abuse of power, use of violence and growing authoritarianism” in her native Philippines.
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