"The 34th Reporters Without Borders (RSF, for its initials in French) Press Freedom Awards ceremony, held on June 1 as part of the 77th World News Media Congress at the Palais du Pharo in Marseille, honored Myanmar photojournalist Sai Zaw Thaike (Courage Prize); Mozambican journalist Carlitos Cadangue (Impact Prize); Argentine journalist Julia Mengolini (Independence Prize); Guinean journalist Habib Marouane Camara (Mohamed Maïga Prize for African Investigative Journalism); and Palestinian photojournalist Abdul Hakim Abu Riash (Lucas Dolega–SAIF Photo Prize).
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Julia Mengolini is a journalist and the founder of the independent outlet Futurock. In 2025, she was targeted by a large-scale intimidation campaign in which she was the victim of deepfake pornography, death and sexual threats, coordinated online harassment and criminal defamation proceedings initiated by President Javier Milei, one of which remains ongoing and could proceed to trial. She has remained outspoken despite the ongoing harassment and has continued her journalistic work. Her case has come to symbolize the escalation of attacks against news workers in the country, and has helped expose the patterns of coordinated intimidation against the press — illustrating how journalism helps confront systemic threats to freedom of information."
