1/

Bravo to the committee. These two have done extraordinary work in places that are very dangerous for talented investigative journalists.

Please, take a look at some of their important work.
2/

"The paper has earned an international reputation for its reporting on corruption and human rights abuses."

'An Argument For The Truth': Novaya Gazeta Editor's Nobel Prize Seen As 'A Shield' For Embattled Russian Journalists
rferl.org/a/31500022.html
3/

"Six of the publication's journalists and contributors have been killed since 2000 and others attacked."

Working For Novaya Gazeta Puts Its Journalists In The Crosshairs
rferl.org/a/novaya-gazet…
4/

Perhaps his most important work has been related to The Russian Laundromat.

[Joint project of Novaya Gazeta and the OCCRP]

August 21, 2014

Laundromat

["Who and how withdrew almost $ 20 billion from Russia.]

«Ландромат» - by Roman Anin
novayagazeta.ru/articles/2014/…
5/

"It may be the biggest money-laundering operation in Eastern Europe -- a virtual laundromat operating through banks and companies connected to powerful people in the region."

The Russian Laundromat - by OCCRP, *Novaya Gazeta*, and RISE Moldova.
occrp.org/en/russianlaun…
6/

In 2017, they released additional details of The Russian Laundromat.

March 19, 2017

No Money? Here you go.

["700 billion rubles were withdrawn from the country. "Novaya Gazeta" answers the question: who got this huge sum."]

Денег нет? Держите!
novayagazeta.ru/articles/2017/…
7/

The Russian Laundromat Exposed

"OCCRP & *Novaya Gazeta* obtained detailed banking records for more than 120 accounts that made up the Laundromat. We shared the data with dozens of reporters from around the world who tracked down the money locally."

8/

"An ex-CNN bureau chief, and now the founder of her own news organisation, Rappler, she had spent the past two years sounding a warning about what she’d seen happen in her native country..."

Facebook and fear in Manila: Maria Ressa’s fight for facts
theguardian.com/world/2021/apr…
9/

[Part 1]

October 3, 2016

"Fallacious reasoning, leaps in logic, poisoning the well – these are only some of the propaganda techniques that have helped shift public opinion on key issues."

Propaganda war: Weaponizing the internet - by Maria Ressa
rappler.com/nation/propaga…
10/

[Part 2]

October 8, 2016

"Facebook's algorithms, created in a black box, are extremely powerful in shaping reality and creating echo chambers that could be harmful to democracy."

How Facebook algorithms impact democracy - by Maria Ressa
rappler.com/newsbreak/face…
11/

[Part 3]

October 9, 2016

"The danger of propagators spreading false or misleading information is all too evident. It can result in beliefs or convictions anchored on false premises."

Fake accounts, manufactured reality on social media
rappler.com/newsbreak/inve…
12/

"A series of five videos about journalist Maria Ressa and the investigations of Rappler.com – stories that the Philippine authorities want to silence."

The forbidden stories of Rappler
forbiddenstories.org/rappler/
13/

September 30, 2019

"The battle for truth is the battle of our generation. With technology as the accelerant, a lie told a million times becomes a fact."

[OPINION] The role of America's social media platforms in the battle for truth - by Maria Ressa rappler.com/voices/thought…
14/

“What we’re seeing is a death by a thousand cuts of our democracy,” Ressa says in the film.

'Lies Laced With Anger and Hate Spread Fastest': Journalist Maria Ressa Maps Social Media Disinformation pbs.org/wgbh/frontline…
15/

May 21, 2013

"She possesses a deep understanding of terrorist networks, having authored two books on the subject."

Philippines’ Rappler fuses online journalism with counter-terrorism tactics, social network theory
techinasia.com/how-rappler-is…
16/

"In this groundbreaking work of investigative journalism, Maria Ressa traces the spread of terrorism from the training camps of Afghanistan to Southeast Asia & the Philippines."

From Bin Laden to Facebook: 10 Days of Abduction, 10 Years of Terrorism
amazon.com/Bin-Laden-Face…
17/

"Every major al-Qaeda attack since 1993 has had a connection to the Philippines, and Maria Ressa...has broken story after story about them."

Seeds of Terror - An Eyewitness Account of Al-Qaeda's Newest Center of Operations in Southeast Asia
simonandschuster.com/books/Seeds-of…
18/

September 28, 2001

"Yousef, convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, had established a cell in the Philippines and trained members of the Abu Sayyaf between 1994-1995."

Abu Sayyaf and its links to bin Laden - by Maria Ressa
web.archive.org/web/2001111603…
19/

September 18, 2001

"The FBI was warned 6 years ago of a terrorist plot to hijack commercial planes & slam them into the Pentagon, CIA headquarters & other buildings..."

U.S. warned in 1995 of plot to hijack planes, attack buildings - by Maria Ressa
web.archive.org/web/2016032514…
20/

Notably, Muratov's Novaya Gazeta is also well-known for it's terrorism investigations, especially involving Chechnya and Dagestan. The outlet is mentioned numerous times in this article.

August 23, 2015

Russia's Double Game with Islamic Terror thedailybeast.com/russias-double…
21/

[Kompromat -> blackmail]

"Russia’s leading independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta exposed systematic arrests, torture and in some cases killings of homosexuals in Chechnya."

Meet the Gay Russian Man Blackmailed to Infiltrate Terrorist Groups in Syria codastory.com/disinformation…
22/

December 8, 2006

"I told them I wanted to close the paper," recalls Mr. Muratov, editor in chief of the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta. "I felt no profession was worth dying for."

As Journalists Die, A Russian Paper Faces Grim Future wsj.com/articles/SB116…
23/

October 13, 2006

"Instead, she threw herself into independent journalism, ending up at Novaya Gazeta in 1999...

She made no secret of her contempt for Kadyrov or for Putin..."

The silencing of Anna salon.com/2006/10/13/pol…
24/

October 12, 2006

"In her report, Politkovskaya said the abuse was provoking hundreds of law-abiding young Chechens to take up arms and join the insurgency."

Paper publishes murdered Russian journalist Politkovskaya's last article theguardian.com/world/2006/oct…
25/

"There was an enormous amount of material in...Novaya Gazeta which pointed to the possibility and in fact to the likelihood that the authorities themselves blew up those buildings."

How the 1999 Russian apartment bombings led to Putin's rise to power businessinsider.com/how-the-1999-r…
26/

May 2001

"Former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko & Russian historian Yuri Felshtinsky co-write a book called ‘Blowing Up Russia’, excerpts are published in the Novaya Gazeta newspaper."

September 1999 Russian apartment bombings timeline
cbc.ca/fifth/blog/sep…
27/

"...the manuscript of Blowing Up Russia was finalized and published in a special edition of Novaya gazeta in August 2001."

'All Of Russia Was At Stake In This Game': Who Blew Up The Apartment Buildings In 1999?
rferl.org/a/who-blew-up-…
28/

March 21, 2000

"Novaya Gazeta...has published a series of articles suggesting that the FSB -- the former KGB -- was involved in an attempted bombing in the city of Ryazan."

Bombing allegations dog Putin
theglobeandmail.com/news/world/bom…
29/

March 17, 2000

"On Wednesday,Novaya Gazeta found that somebody had broken into its computer network two hours before the paper went to press and erased the whole of yesterday's issue."

Russian intelligence produces apartment bombing evidence
web.archive.org/web/2021021107…
30/

January 30, 2001

"I'm not very optimistic about freedom of speech in Russia today," Muratov says. "But life is a long-term project. That's why everything will work out somehow, and we'll do our best..."

Free speech, at a deadly price baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-20…
31/

"We will not duck. We will not hide. We will hold the line."

Opinion: Maria Ressa fights for free press in Philippines
p.dw.com/p/41SRr?maca=e…

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