Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa: "I'm in shock"

OSLO: Philippines journalist Maria Ressa, who won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday with Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov, in live broadcast by Rappler, says she was stunned by the news.

"I am in shock," Ressa told a live broadcast by Rappler, the online news website she co-founded.

'HOLD THE LINE' Rappler CEO and 2021 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Maria Ressa has been vocal against the decline of democracy in the age of disinformation. We will not duck, we will not hide. We will hold the line, said Ressa in the documentary A Thousand Cuts. #NobelPrize pic.twitter.com/Ugug503Hnx
— Rappler (@rapplerdotcom) October 8, 2021