Maria Ressa

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.