Maltese Journalist Who Served As PN Campaign Manager Wins Reporters Without Borders Independence Award
Caroline Muscat, editor and co-founder of The Shift News, has won the Prize for Independence at the Reporters Without Borders’ annual Press Freedom Awards.
Muscat used to be news editor at Times of Malta before resigning in 2016 to become the Nationalist Party’s campaign manager for the 2017 general election. Following the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia a few months later, Muscat set up The Shift News along with fellow journalists James Debono and Jurgen Balzan, both of whom have since left the project.
We don’t need to be heroes. The fact that some of us are being recognized as such says more about the countries we work in than it does about us. We are all made more vulnerable when justice is out of reach and impunity strengthens the hand of the corrupt" @muscatcar pic.twitter.com/OzkOtUbKWR
— RSF (@RSF_inter) September 12, 2019
Muscat dedicated her award last night to Caruana Galizia and her family.
“We don’t need to be heroes. The fact that some of us are being recognized as such says more about the countries we work in than it does about us,” she said. “We are all made more vulnerable when justice is out of reach and impunity strengthens the hand of the corrupt.”
Also nominated for the Independence award were Pakistani newspaper Dawn, Nicaraguan newspaper Confidencial and former Cameroonian journalist Amadou Vamoulké.