Media Outlets Eligible for Nobel Peace Prize
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Forget the Pulitzer prize. Drop the Royal Television Society Awards. Journalists could be in line for the ultimate international accolade: the Nobel peace prize.Somehow I doubt it will happen this year. Then again, why else would they make this public just a week prior to the announcement of this year's winner?
On October 13, when this year's laureate will be announced, media outlets could join the select group of statesmen, human rights campaigners and international organisations that have won, arguably, the world's most prestigious honour.
"Media organisations could receive the Nobel peace prize in future," Professor Geir Lundestad, the secretary of the Norwegian Nobel committee, told MediaGuardian.co.uk.
