Maria Ressa is the founder, CEO, and executive editor of Rappler news site, working for press freedom in the Philippines. She previously was senior vice president of ABS-CBN in Manila. Prior to this, Ressa opened and ran CNN's Jakarta, Indonesia, bureau from 1995 to 2005, after opening and running its Manila bureau for nearly a decade. In 1987, she began reporting for CNN and joined ABS-CBN as director and producer of Probe newsmagazine. Her books are Seeds of Terror, From Bin Laden to Facebook, and How to Stand up to a Dictator. Politically harassed and arrested by Duterte’s government, Ressa’s pursuit of truth and democracy is the subject of the documentary A Thousand Cuts. Her honors include the Nobel Peace Prize and UNESCO’s Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize.
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Across the globe, free and fair elections have given rise to autocratic regimes. Have we underestimated the fragility of democracy and overestimated its value? (Book signing w...
Around the world, a free and independent press stands as one of the last lines of defense against rising autocracy and democratic backsliding. Nobel laureate Maria Ressa, who...
Out on bail after a conviction for “cyber libel” by the Philippines government, journalist and freedom of the press crusader Maria Ressa checks in with NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navar...