Keyword: press freedom
The two reporters had been incarcerated since 2017 for their reporting on the plight of the Rohingya. Asia Society awarded them with Asia's most prominent journalism prize last year.
The journalists weigh in on recent incidents targeting the press and how the media landscape has shifted in their country in recent years.
But, advises Laura Chang of Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations, "one would do well to approach the results with a cautious eye."
Friday Times Editor-in-Chief Najam Sethi says journalists are both part of the problem and the solution in Pakistan.
