Maria A. Ressa Biography

Maria Angelita Ressa is a Filipino-American journalist and novelist who is most known for co-founding and serving as the CEO of Rappler. She formerly worked for CNN as a lead investigative correspondent in Southeast Asia for over two decades. Ressa was named one of Time's Person of the Year 2018 as one of a group of journalists fighting fake news from across the world. Ressa is one of the 25 prominent leaders on Reporters Without Borders' Information and Democracy Commission. Ressa has been nominated for an Emmy, the Asian Television Awards, TOWNS - Ten Outstanding Women in the Nation's Service (Philippines), and TOYM Philippines. Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of Al-Newest Qaeda's Center and From Bin Laden to Facebook: 10 Days of Abduction, 10 Years of Terrorism are her two books about the growth of terrorism in Southeast Asia.

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