“The mission of journalism has never been needed as much as it is today. That’s why Rapplers have come back day after day with the best hard-hitting stories they can find. They’re stubborn,” Maria Ressa, CEO of the Filipino news site Rappler, likes to say. Ressa is one of the journalists who are named as TIME magazine’s “person” of the year today. Read the full article.
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Time’s ‘Person Of The Year’ Reminds Us Journalists Face More Widespread Threats Than Ever (Huffington Post, 11 December 2018)
“The mission of journalism has never been needed as much as it is today. That’s why Rapplers have come back day after day with the best hard-hitting stories they can find. They’re stubborn,” Maria Ressa, CEO of the Filipino news site Rappler, likes to say. Ressa is one of the journalists who are named as […]
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