This year's Nobel Peace Prize goes to journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitrij Muratow.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced this in the morning in Oslo.
Last year the award went to the United Nations World Food Program, which was honored, among other things, for its fight against hunger in the world.
As in the previous year, the Nobel Prizes are endowed with ten million Swedish kronor (around 980,000 euros) per category.
The Nobel Peace Prize is considered the most prestigious political award in the world.
329 candidates - 234 personalities and 95 organizations - have been nominated this time.
This is the third largest number of nominees ever.
The names of the nominees are traditionally kept secret for 50 years.
Ex-Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt, the last German award winner, was honored in 1971 for his Ostpolitik, which had contributed to the détente in the Cold War.
The winners in the categories medicine, physics, chemistry and literature were announced this week.
Among them were two Germans, the meteorologist Klaus Hasselmann and the chemist Benjamin List.
Next Monday, the Nobel Prize in Economics will conclude.
The new Nobel Peace Prize laureate is the only one to be announced not in Stockholm, but in Oslo.
The awards are traditionally presented on December 10th, the anniversary of the death of the prize donor and dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel (1833-1896).
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