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Maria Ressa
Maria Angelita Ressa is a Filipino and American journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. She is the co-founder and CEO of Rappler. She previously spent nearly two decades working as a lead investigative reporter in Southeast Asia for CNN. She has been a distinguished fellow at Columbia University's new Institute of Global Politics since 2023 and a professor of professional practice in Columbia's…
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culture · Filipino and American journalist (born 1963) · journalist · editing staff · university teacher · also Maria Ressa, Maria Angelita Aycardo Ressa, Maria Angelita Ressa, Maria A. Ressa, Ressa
Born 2 October 1963 · Q6761526
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2026· 6 entries
“They are used as political tools and the crazy thing is we are just doing our jobs.”
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“The worst of times is the best of times.”
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“The youth have as much to contribute as those who are old and scarred. “Sometimes we fight the battles of the past and we need the energy of the youth to anchor us and to build better forward.”
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“These times present an opportunity for the youth to stand for the truth, assuring them they “have as much power as a veteran.”
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“for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace”
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2025· 4 entries
The Guardian: How to live a good life in difficult times: Yuval Noah Harari, Rory Stewart and Maria Ressa in conversation
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The Guardian: Americans are ‘deer in the headlights’ in face of Trump assault on free speech, Maria Ressa tells Jon Stewart
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Ressa and five other Rappler executives were acquitted by a court in Pasig of violating restrictions on foreigners owning companies under the Anti-Dummy Law
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Ressa won a Missouri Honor Medal from the University of Missouri School of Journalism
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2024· 2 entries
VERA Files rated the claim “Maria Ressa is promoting a cryptocurrency platform called Bitcoin Method.” Fake.
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Ressa was named Harvard University's commencement speaker
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2023· 10 entries
The Guardian: Philippine Nobel prize winner Maria Ressa acquitted of tax charges
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Yahoo: Nobel winner Maria Ressa acquitted of tax evasion though she faces 2 more legal cases
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The Guardian: Nobel laureate Maria Ressa says research by Oxford institute can be used against reporters
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The Guardian: Maria Ressa: Nobel-winning Philippine editor keeps a ‘go bag’ in case of arrest
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The Guardian: ‘Truth wins’: Maria Ressa, Philippine Nobel prize winner, acquitted of tax evasion charges
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The Guardian: Overjoyed Maria Ressa says 'justice wins' as she is cleared of tax evasion – video
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New York Post: Nobel winner Maria Ressa, news outlet cleared of tax evasion
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Time: Maria Ressa, Philippine Journalist and Nobel Laureate, Acquitted of Tax Evasion Charges
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12 Nobel Peace Prize laureates, including all of the 2022 laureates and her fellow 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov, issued an open letter to President Marcos requesting him to "assist in bringing about a rap
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Joined The Intercept's board of directors
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2022· 9 entries
NPR: Maria Ressa on Social Media, Authoritarian Regimes, and Preserving Democracy
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The Guardian: How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa review – tales of a moral giant
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The Guardian: How to Stand Up to a Dictator by Maria Ressa review – facing down despots
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The Guardian: ‘You have to fight for democracy’: Maria Ressa and her lawyer Amal Clooney on their quest for justice
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Rappler rated the claim “A photo shows Rappler CEO Maria Ressa during her booking procedures for her arrest. The Court of Appeals allegedly upheld a court decision to jail her for 15 years.” False.
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VERA Files rated the claim “Maria Ressa has been sentenced to 6 years in prison for cyber libel.” Needs Context.
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The Guardian: Maria Ressa: Amal Clooney condemns court after Nobel laureate’s conviction upheld
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FactRakers rated the claim “Journalist Maria Ressa is not Pinoy” FALSE.
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Awarded Asia's Most Influential Philippines (2022).
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2021· 9 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Peace — for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace.
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The Guardian: Unlikely allies: Rupert Murdoch and Maria Ressa take aim at social media’s ‘virus of lies’ | The Weekly Beast
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The Guardian: Social media creating virus of lies, says Nobel winner Maria Ressa
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The Guardian: ‘A triumph of truth over lies’: joy in the Philippines over Maria Ressa’s Nobel prize win
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Ressa was officially announced as the recipient of the prize alongside Dmitry Muratov of Russia
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Awarded Nobel Peace Prize (2021).
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Awarded UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize (2021).
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VERA Files rated the claim “Nominees for the Nobel Peace Prize cannot be revealed. Maria Ressa's nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize is fake news.” Misleading.
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“The mission of journalism has never been needed as much as it is now.”
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2020· 7 entries
Ressa joined the 25-member Real Facebook Oversight Board, an independent watchdog group established to provide public commentary on Facebook's content moderation policies and role in civic life
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VERA Files rated the claim “BBC's Stephen Sackur knows Rappler CEO Maria Ressa is "fake" and is a tax evader” Misleading.
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Awarded Free Press Unlimited Most Resilient Journalist Award (2020).
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Awarded Kurt Tucholsky Prize (2020).
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A court in Manila found her guilty of cyberlibel under the controversial Anti-Cybercrime law, a move condemned by human rights groups and journalists as an attack on press freedom
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“If the social media platforms don't take the gatekeeping seriously they will kill the public sphere. If we don't get this right in 2020 you can open a decade or longer of a descent into fascism. And it will be global because platforms are global.”
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“I don't think we have wrapped our heads around how much technology has allowed the manipulation of individuals and democracies.”
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2019· 9 entries
Awarded BBC 100 Women (2019).
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At the executor proceeding of Manila city Judge Maria Teresa Abadilla, Ressa gained freedom by posting bail at ₱100,000 ($1,900)
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Was arrested by Philippine authorities for cyberlibel due to accusations that Rappler published a false news story concerning businessman Wilfredo Keng
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Judge Rainelda Estacio-Montesa of the Manila Regional Trial Court Branch #46 issued the arrest warrant for "cyber libel" against Ressa for an article published on Rappler
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“This case of cyberlibel stretches the rule of law until it breaks.”
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Human rights lawyers Amal Clooney, Caoilfhionn Gallagher, and Can Yeğinsu joined the legal team (consisting of international and Filipino lawyers) defending Ressa
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“What are the values that give meaning? What is the line that you will never cross, because on this side you're good, and on this side you're evil.”
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“I think that social media platforms and technology have been the accelerator for the push for the populist-style administrations in democratically elected presidents.”
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“Press freedom is not just about journalists, right? It's not just about us, it's not just about me, it's not just about Rappler. Press freedom is... the foundation of every single right of every single Filipino to the truth, so that we can hold the powerful to account.”
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2018· 3 entries
Won World Association of Newspapers' Golden Pen of Freedom Award (2018).
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Ressa appeared before the Philippines' National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), to comply with a subpoena over an online libel complaint under the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012, which the administration of Rodrigo Dut
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“Don't be afraid - if you don't exercise your rights, you will lose them.”
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2016· 1 entry
Was listed as one of the eight most influential and powerful leaders in the Philippines by Kalibrr
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2015· 2 entries
The Philippine Movie Press Club awarded Ressa with an Excellence in Broadcasting Lifetime Achievement award at the 29th PMPC Star Awards for Television
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During his presidential election campaign, where he confessed to killing three people when he was mayor
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2012· 3 entries
Along with three other female founders and with a small team of 12 journalists and developers
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Before the act criminalizing cyberlibel was signed into law by Benigno Aquino III, the Department of Justice considered it republished after a typographical error was corrected in 2014
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Ressa cofounded Rappler in 2012 and leads it as CEO.
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2010· 2 entries
Esquire proclaimed Ressa the Philippines' "sexiest woman alive," explaining: "Despite her size, fearless enough to write an eyewitness account of Al-Qaeda
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After deciding not to renew her contract
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2003· 4 entries
“My job is to hold power to account.”
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“We need information ecosystems that live and die by facts. We do this by shifting social priorities to rebuild journalism for the 21st century while regulating and outlawing the surveillance economics that profit from hate and lies.”
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“Without facts, you can’t have truth. Without truth, you can’t have trust. Without trust, we have no shared reality, no democracy, and it becomes impossible to deal with our world’s existential problems: climate, coronavirus, the battle for truth.”
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“We are standing on the rubble of the world that was, and we must have the foresight and courage to imagine what might happen if we don’t act now, and instead, create the world as it should be – more compassionate, more equal, more sustainable.”
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1987· 1 entry
And simultaneously served as CNN's bureau chief in Manila until 1995
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1963· 1 entry
Born 1963-10-02.
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