Muratov is the editor-in-chief of Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta. It was founded by him in 1993, and he edited the newspaper until 2017.

According to CNN, the newspaper has exposed several cases of abuse of power, human rights violation and corruption.

The Committee to Protect Journalists called his newspaper the “only truly critical newspaper with national influence in Russia today.”

The editor also received for the Novaya Gazeta the Four Freedoms Award for Freedom of Speech in Middelburg, the Netherlands in 2010.