Maria Ressa, a journalist of 36 years, is not able to keep any of her schedules (she is booked by the hour) because of the volume of people who want her autograph and a photo. Online in the Philippines, it was different.
of its presidency. Ressa was in London on a travel bond, which had to be applied for and secured laboriously before many courts – the latest the Supreme Court where her appeal on her cyber libel conviction has reached.
She also wrote in great detail her personal life, which, to any journalist, is a grief to do. Journalists are never the story, but to make sense of what had happened and why Rappler chooses to hold the line, Ressa had to go as far back as early childhood to the formative and explorative periods of adulthood to figure out why she would stand up to a dictator.
“Journalists sacrifice because it is the right thing to do at this moment in time,” said Ressa at The Conduit, pitching
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