Event

Moment of Truth

Maria ressa on stage — Photo: Johannes Granseth / Nobel Peace Center

A conversation with Maria Ressa on the rollbacks of press freedom in a world with autocracy on the rise.

Time:26 Jun 2025 06:30 - 08:00 CEST
Place: Nobel Peace Center

Registration

The event will be held in english. Doors open at 8:30 for registration and light breakfast. The programme starts at 9:00. Tickets are 85 kr.

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The Nobel Peace Center, PEN Norway and The International Fund for Public Interest Media (IFPIM) invite to a breakfast meeting with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa.

The Filipino American journalist was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2021, jointly with the Russian editor Dmitry Muratov, for her “courageous fight for freedom of expression». Ressa, who is co-founder and CEO of Rappler, Professor at Columbia University and co-chair of IFPIM, will share her thoughts on freedom of speech and the role of truth and trust in a world where democracy, press freedom and our information system are under attack.

Portraits of Jørgen Watne Fydnes, Maria Ressa and Kjersti Fløgstad — From the left: Jørgen Watne Fydnes, Maria Ressa and Kjersti Fløgstad. Photo: Nobel Prize Outreach, Agnete Brun, Clément Morin, Nobel Peace Center

PROGRAMME:

8:30 Doors open. Registration and light breakfast

9:00 Welcome by Kjersti Fløgstad, Executive Director, Nobel Peace Center

9:05 Keynote by Maria Ressa, Nobel Peace Prize 2021

9:20 Conversation between Maria Ressa and Jørgen Watne Frydnes, Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee and Director of PEN Norway

10:00 End of programme

In collaboration with PEN Norway and The International Fund for Public Interest Media (IFPIM)