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Maria Ressa

(1963) Journalist United States

58 quotes in 204 categories

Maria Ressa is a journalist from the United States, best known for How to Stand up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future.

Quick Facts About Maria Ressa

Born: October 2, 1963
Nationality: United States
Profession: Journalist
Notable works: How to Stand up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future

About 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 School of International and Public Affairs since July 2024.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Nobel Peace Prize World Association of Newspapers' Golden Pen of Freedom Award Fulbright Scholarship Kurt Tucholsky Prize UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize BBC 100 Women Four Freedoms Award – Freedom of Speech Asia's Most Influential Philippines

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Free Press Unlimited Most Resilient Journalist Award

Quotes by Maria Ressa · Page 2

Any journalist who asked critical questions, anyone on social media who questioned about the extrajudicial killings was bombarded with abuse, threats of…

Death

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Don't be afraid - if you don't exercise your rights, you will lose them.

Afraid

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The more you do the right thing, the harder it is to do the wrong thing.

Harder

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Don't let technology dictate your life.

Funny

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The social media platforms have taken over the distribution of news globally. They treat a lie the same way you would treat…

Lie

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The difference between Rappler and other newsgroups in the Philippines is that journalists control Rappler both editorially and commercially. We make decisions…

Bad

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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…

Fascism

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In 14 months, my government, the Philippine 2 government, has filed 11 cases. I posted bail eight times, I've been arrested twice…

Government

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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,…

Evil

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Press freedom is the foundation of the rights of all Filipinos to the truth.

Foundation

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Ninety-seven percent of Filipinos on the Internet are on Facebook. And according to Hootsuite or We Are Social, in January 2019, Filipinos…

Internet

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Enshrined in the Philippine constitution, which is similar to the United States, is the bill of rights: freedom of expression, freedom of…

Bill of rights

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Let me go back to a fundamental thing we all used to agree on: information is power. That's why we became journalists…

Data

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If you want to rip the heart out of a democracy, you go after the facts. That's what modern authoritarians do. You…

Democracy

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I would give back every single award to be able to actually do our jobs as journalists without this kind of harassment.

Award

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All around the world, leaders are gaining more power. That's what this pandemic demands: a coordinated whole-of-nation approach with a powerful conductor…

Around the world

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“Facebook didn’t only provide a platform for those propagandists’ speech or even only enable them; in fact, it gave them preferential treatment…

Communication

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I'm banking on the fact that there are still good people in government who will prevent this. I've been a journalist for…

Change

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The attacks against me and Rappler began appearing on Facebook in the summer of 2016. A year later President Rodrigo Duterte was…

Facebook

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Truth matters. Checks and balances matter.

Checks and balances

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Constitutionally you can't have a law go retroactively.

Go

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So a lie told a million times becomes the truth.

Becomes

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Never judge. Step in their shoes.

Inspirational

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If you can make people believe lies are the facts, then you can control them.

Believe

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After living a decade in Jakarta, I chose. I chose Manila, the Philippines, for better or worse.

Better

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Maria Ressa by topic

Politics (9) Social media (8) Media (8) Government (8)