Maria Ressa, a Philippine journalist and CEO of news site Rappler, was convicted of cyber libel on Monday and could face up to six year in jail. Watchdogs say the case is an example of a dangerous ...

The CEO of Rappler, a news website critical of the government in the Philippines, has been arrested at its headquarters in Manila. Maria Ressa has been accused of "cyber-libel" over a report on a ...

Ressa’s cyber libel case is already before the Supreme Court after the Court of Appeals affirmed the Manila Court’s decision.

The relationship between big tech and journalism has grown increasingly complex, exemplified by the impact of Jeff Bezos’ ...

In the early ’90s, my wife and I taught at a small college in the Ilocos Region of the Philippines. Telecommunication was rare, difficult, and, by today’s standards, glacially slow. We didn’t have a ...

Prominent Philippine journalist Maria Ressa has been re-arrested at Manila airport, allegedly for violating laws barring foreign ownership of media. Ms Ressa, the founder of news site Rappler, was ...

The four charges were filed against Ressa and her news site Rappler by President Rodrigo Duterte's administration in 2018. Ressa and Dmitry Muratov of Russia won the Nobel Peace Prize for their ...

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa reminded the Class of 2024 of Harvard University to be brave in speaking up on the ongoing wars across the globe, despite the “chilling effect” that ...

Maria Ressa, co-founder, president and CEO of Rappler, the top digital news site leading the fight for press freedom in the Philippines, discusses the challenges to independent journalists, especially ...

Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov were given the award "for their courageous fight for freedom of expression in the Philippines and Russia," Chairwoman Berit Reiss-Andersen of the Norwegian Nobel ...

Drawing from her experience as a journalist in the Philippines and enduring harassment under Rodrigo Duterte’s government, Ressa cautions Americans that “without journalism, you have no ...