But the prize is also a de facto acknowledgement that Ressa has become something of a one-woman personification of the struggles, perils, and promise of journalism in the age of social media. Intro (Ralph Ranalli): The Nobel Committee has awarded its 2021 Prize for Peace to Maria Ressa for being a fearless defender of independent journalism and freedom of expression, particularly for her work exposing the human rights abuses of authoritarian Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte. And that is courtesy of the platforms that deliver the news. If you don't have trust, you have nothing. And when you don't have truth, you can't have trust. Intro (Maria Ressa): So I always say this when you don't have facts, you can't have truth. Hosted and produced byįor more information please visit our webpage or contact us at episode is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts. She wrote Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of al-Qaeda’s Newest Center of Operations in Southeast Asia and From Bin Laden to Facebook: 10 Days of Abduction, 10 Years of Terrorism. She opened and ran CNN’s Manila Bureau for nearly a decade before opening the network’s Jakarta Bureau, which she ran from 1995 to 2005. In 2020, she received the Journalist of the Year award, the John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award, the Most Resilient Journalist Award, the Tucholsky Prize, the Truth to Power Award, and the Four Freedoms Award.īefore founding Rappler, Maria focused on investigating terrorism in Southeast Asia. She was also part of BBC’s 100 most inspiring and influential women of 2019 and Prospect magazine’s world’s top 50 thinkers. For her courage and work on disinformation, Ressa was named Time Magazine’s 2018 Person of the Year, was among its 100 Most Influential People of 2019, and has also been named one of Time’s Most Influential Women of the Century. Maria Ressa has been a journalist in Asia for 35 years and co-founded Rappler, the top digital only news site that is leading the fight for press freedom in the Philippines. When we spoke for this interview, Ressa was just finishing a visiting fellowship at the Kennedy School, where she was affiliated with both the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy and the Center for Public Leadership. She has been subjected to harassment, criminal and civil legal action, and even arrest, even as she has refused to back off even an inch. Rappler’s mission statement is to speak truth to power and build communities of action for a better world-but for Ressa, speaking truth to power has come at a high personal cost. She originally founded Rappler, her Manila-based online news organization, as a Facebook page, but now she says that one-time Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg’s dominance as a worldwide distributor of news has become a boon to repressive regimes and a threat to democracy worldwide. A longtime investigative reporter and bureau chief for CNN, she began thinking about how social networks could be used for both good and evil while covering terrorism and seeing how it was used to drive both radicalism and build movements for positive change. The Nobel Committee has awarded its 2021 Peace Prize to Maria Ressa for being a fearless defender of independent journalism and freedom of expression in the Philippines, and particularly for her work exposing the human rights abuses of authoritarian President Rodrigo Duterte. Harvard Kennedy School visiting fellow Maria Ressa warns that authoritarians are weaponizing social media with the aid of tech companies, who prioritize fear over facts in the name of engagement and profit. Taubman Center for State and Local Government.Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy.Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.
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