Irish Examiner view: This year's Nobel Peace Prize a recognition for truth

It is timely and encouraging that the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to  journalists.

Colleagues congratulate 'Novaya Gazeta' editor Dmitry Muratov at the Novaya Gazeta newspaper, in Moscow, Russia, yesterday. Picture: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP.

Reporting is a dangerous job. While it has always carried a risk, all the statistics are heading in the wrong direction.

Eighteen journalists have been killed so far in 2021, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, bringing the total to 1,416 since 1992.