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Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov: Fighting for a free press

Stephen Sackur speaks to the winners of this year鈥檚 Nobel Peace Prize, journalists Maria Ressa of Rappler in the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Novaya Gazeta in Russia.

Stephen Sackur is in Oslo to interview the joint winners of this year鈥檚 Nobel Peace Prize. Both are independent journalists who have defied threats and repression to continue their work. Maria Ressa, founder of the Rappler news website in the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov, long time editor in chief of Novaya Gazeta in Moscow. Theirs is a fight for freedom of expression. But is it a fight they are losing?

(Photo: Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov during the Nobel Peace Prize award ceremony. Credit: Stian Lysberg Solum/NTB/Reuters)

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