Maria Ressa

Rappler CEO and renowned journalist Maria Ressa is one of TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential persons in 2019. “Losing an independent Senate is game over” for the checks and balances in the Philippine governments, she told...

PHILIPPINES — A number of Filipino journalists and lawyers are behind a plot to oust President Rodrigo Duterte — according to a matrix published by The Manila Times on Monday. The report supposedly details a closely...

WASHINGTON DC — “No justice, no peace, stop the killings in the Philippines!” Their loud chants filled the historic Hart Senate office building atrium – where some of the biggest and consequential protests in Washington DC’s...

WASHINGTON DC — From the east coast to the west, hundreds of Filipino activists and their allies trooped to the nation’s capital to send a loud message to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. A die-in protest at...

SAN FRANCISCO — Fil-Am journalist Maria Ressa, co-founder and CEO of Rappler, has been preaching for the protection of press freedom. She and her newsgroup have been a favorite target of attacks by President Rodrigo Duterte and his...

DALY CITY, CA — Filipinos gathered at the Pilipino Bayanihan Resource Center in Daly City to hear a statement from Rappler CEO and chief editor Maria Ressa regarding press freedom and democracy in the Philippines. Recently, Ressa...

LOS ANGELES — This weekend marked the anniversary of the EDSA People Power Resolution, and as U.S.-based activists are continuing the fight. LA Filipinos marked the anniversary of the 1986 EDSA Revolution by holding a forum on...

PHILIPPINES — Rappler chief Maria Ressa’s arrest over alleged “cyber-libel” charges in the Philippines on Wednesday reverberated around the globe. The New York Times’ headline: Maria Ressa, Philippine journalist critical of Rodrigo Duterte, is released after arrest....

by CHRISTINE SANTOS, ABS-CBN News Toronto Prior to her Philippine Dept. of Justice, indictment, Rappler CEO and chief editor Maria Ressa made a recent visit to Canada, and gave a talk on the state of democracy in the...