A Conversation with Nobel Laureate Dmitry Muratov

Around the world, we face an existential crisis for democracy and its essential component, an independent, watchdog press. Journalists are being sued, jailed or killed; they face digital surveillance and harassment, and the flood of misinformation undermines public trust in their work. In this environment of political backlash, what are our challenges and how do we overcome them? In Russia, in particular, leading independent media outlets have been labeled “undesirable organizations” and their journalists branded “foreign agents,” with growing numbers forced into exile. Others have been jailed, and even murdered. GIJN is pleased to announce an in-depth interview with 2021’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate Dmitry Muratov. Muratov is editor in chief of Russia’s Novaya Gazeta, the nation’s leading independent newspaper. Novaya Gazeta is renowned for its investigations into corruption, human rights abuses, electoral fraud, police violence, and other misuses of power in a country where many news outlets have bee