2018 Tully Award for Free Speech
Maria Ressa
Journalist
Journalist Maria Ressa is the recipient of the 2018 Free Speech Award, presented by the Newhouse School’s Tully Center for Free Speech. Ressa, who is CEO and executive editor of The Rappler, will visit campus for the award ceremony Wednesday, April 24, at 1 p.m. in the Miron Room, 303 Newhouse 1. The center will also recognize late Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi at the ceremony.
Past Recipients
2017
Daphne Caruana Galizia
Maltese Journalist
2016
Jason Rezaian
Washington Post reporter
2015
Kathy Gannon
Senior correspondent for The Associated Press
2014
Alan Rusbridger
Editor of The Guardian
2013
Idrak Abbasov
Journalist
2012
Lamees Dhaif
Independent Bahraini journalist and human rights activist
2011
Umar Cheema
Journalist and investigative reporter
2010
Lydia Cacho
Journalist, feminist and human rights activist
2009
Frank Chikowore
Freelance reporter
2009
Barry Bearak
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
2008
