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US renews call on Myanmar to free journalist amid Covid fears July 23, 2021

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 [...]

Russian investigative site The Insider branded ‘foreign agent’ July 23, 2021

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.

Past Recipients

2020 Masrat Zahra Srinagar, Kashmir
2019 Paolo Borrometi Rome, Italy
2018 Jovo Martinović Podgorica, Montenegro
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