The United States on Friday renewed calls on Myanmar’s junta to free a jailed US journalist as concerns grow about a Covid-19 outbreak in prisons packed with detained activists. Danny Fenster, managing editor of the Frontier Myanmar news outlet, was [...]
Russia on Friday designated The Insider, an independent media outlet and key partner of investigative website Bellingcat, a “foreign agent”, in an intensifying crackdown on liberal media. The Insider investigated with Bellingcat the near-fatal [...]
About The Peter Mackler Award
The Peter Mackler Award honors reporters and editors who have demonstrated a commitment to fairness, accuracy and speaking truth to power, and a matching commitment to asserting the right to publish or air that story in countries where independent media is under threat.
