Maria Ressa Quotes


The seed idea for Rappler really is looking at information cascades. If you think about it, the end goal - when I was raising money for Rappler, I didn't talk about investigative journalism, even though that's our core.


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Swisher, Kara. "Recode Decode: Maria Ressa." Vox, Vox Media, 15 Mar. 2019.

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Maria Ressa
Maria Ressa
  • Born: October 2, 1963
  • Nationality: Filipino
  • Profession: Journalist, Author

Maria Angelita Ressa is a Filipino-American journalist and author, the co-founder and CEO of Rappler. She previously spent nearly two decades working as a lead investigative reporter in Southeast Asia for CNN. In 2020, she was convicted of cyberlibel under the controversial Philippine Anti-Cybercrime law, a move condemned by human rights groups and journalists as an attack on press freedom.