Meduza CEO Receives CPJ Press Freedom Award
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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) honored Galina Timchenko, CEO, publisher and founder of Meduza (recognized as a foreign media agent), with an international press freedom award. The award was presented to Ms. Timchenko during the 32nd CPJ ceremony held in New York.
“Our duty and our mission remains the same: to provide readers with independent, unbiased information and not leave them alone in this dark hour… The only thing that matters is the courage to keep fighting. And we will continue. I promise,” the former editor-in-chief of Meduza delivered a speech during the awards ceremony, the recording of which is available at YouTube channel CPJ.
Ms. Timchenko was awarded a special award named after the American journalist Gwen Ifil. Other award winners include Sevgil Musayeva, editor-in-chief of Ukrayinska Pravda, and journalists from Vietnam, Cuba, and Iraqi Kurdistan.
May 20, 2021 Meduza was recognized in Russia as a foreign agent, and in March of this year, the publication’s website was blocked on the territory of the Russian Federation. The project was created in 2014 after the dismissal of Galina Timchenko from the post of editor-in-chief of Lenta.ru amid a change in the management of Lenta.
On the legal aspects of the work of Meduza in Russia – in the material “Kommersant” “They lit up Medusa”.
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