World Press Freedom Day: Philippines journalist Maria Ressa to receive 2021 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize

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World Press Freedom Day: Philippines journalist Maria Ressa to receive 2021 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize

Over a career spanning more than thirty years, Ressa has worked as CNN’s lead investigative reporter for

Asia and the head of ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs. She has also been involved in many

international initiatives to promote press freedom. In recent years, she has been the target of

online attacks and judicial processes relating to her investigative reporting and status as

manager of online outlet Rappler. She has been arrested for alleged crimes related to the

exercise of her profession, and has been subject to a sustained campaign of gendered online

abuse, threats, and harassment, which at one point, resulted in her receiving an average of

over 90 hateful messages

 

The $25,000 Prize recognizes outstanding contributions to the defence or promotion of

press freedom especially in the face of danger. It is named after Guillermo Cano Isaza, the

Colombian journalist who was assassinated in front of the offices of his newspaper 

El Espectador in Bogotá, Colombia, on 17 December 1986.

It is funded by the Guillermo Cano Isaza Foundation (Colombia),

the Helsingin Sanomat Foundation (Finland) and the Namibia Media Trust.

About the 2021 World Press Freedom Day Global Conference in Windhoek

The 2021 World Press Freedom Day Global Conference will take place from

29 April to 3 May and focus on the theme of Information as a Public Good.

More than 40 online and in situ sessions are planned, looking at topics such

as the transparency of online platforms and the importance of media and information literacy.

The conference will also tackle ways to promote and support independent media struggling

to survive a crisis worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic, at a time when national and local

media everywhere face financial instability and other pressures threatening their survival and

their journalists’ jobs.

 

 

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