Maria Ressa
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| Born | Manila, Philippines |
| Nationality | Filipino |
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University of the Philippines Diliman Princeton University |
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| Notable credit(s) | CEO of Rappler |
Maria A. Ressa is a Filipino journalist, CEO of Rappler, and author of Seeds of Terror, a book published by Free Press that contains blow-by-blow account of the hideouts of Al-Qaeda in Asia.
Maria studied molecular biology and theater at Princeton University. She then applied for a Fulbright Fellowship, with which she completed her Masters in journalism at the University of the Philippines Diliman.
Her first job was at CNN where she worked for nearly two decades, serving as Manila Bureau Chief from 1988–1995 and as Jakarta Bureau Chief from 1995-2005. She traveled extensively and reported from her base in Southeast Asia as well as India, Pakistan, China, South Korea, Japan, Australia and the United States. As CNN’s lead investigative reporter in Asia, she specialized in investigating terrorist networks. Videotapes of her coverage of terrorism were found in what experts believe to be Osama bin Laden’s private videotape collection in Afghanistan.
Maria served as the head of ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs Department from 2004-2010. She also taught broadcasting principles at the University of the Philippines Diliman, and at Princeton University, she designed and taught a course on Politics and the Press in Southeast Asia.
In an open letter dated October 11, 2010, Ressa noted that she will not renew her six-year contract with the said network, saying that "It’s time for [her] to move on." She is now an author-in-residence at The International Center for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR) of Nanyang Technological University's S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore. Ressa and ICPVTR aims to come up with a book "on the terrorism threats in Asia, their connections to the global jihad and how governments are responding to these evolving threats." The book's release is expected to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.
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