Maria Angelita Aycardo Ressa
As a Professor
Educational Background
Maria Ressa earned a bachelor's degree in English from Princeton University and graduatedas Cum Laude.
She was then awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to the Philippines in 1986,where she attended graduate school at the University of the Philippines.
She taught courses in politics and media for her alma mater, Princeton University, as well as in broadcasting at the University of the Philippines
- Rappler started 2011
- coined from "rap" and "ripple"
- Media and Technology
- Social News Network
- CEO and Executive Editor
RAPPLER
FROM CNN
"Journalism faces challenging days ahead. Value and protect your editorial independe. I wish you clarity of thought, stamina, and courage to fight for what right and avoid the compromise of mediocrity"
Maria Ressa, 2010
- Ressa worked for Cable News Network (CNN)
- CNN's lead investigative reporter in Asia
- She specialized in investigative terrorist networks
- Manila Bureau Chief from 1988-1995
- CNN's lead reporter on three tumultuous changes of government in Southeast Asia:
Indonesia in 1998
East Timor in 1999
Philippines in 2001
Jakarta Bureau Chief from 1995-2005
ACHIEVEMENTS
To ABS CBN
- Head of ABS CBN News and Current Affairs (2005-2010)
- TV Patrol to TV Patrol World
- Spearheaded two Boto Mo Ipatrol Mo campaigns (2007 & 2010)
- Overseas Press Club Award for Best Documentary
- The National Headliner Award for Investigative Journalism
- and Emmy nomination for Outstanding Investigative Journalism
- The Asian Television Awards, TOWNS- Ten Outstanding Women in the Nation's Service and TOYM.
- National Headliner Award for Investigative Journalism (2002)
- Ferris Professorship of Journalism at Princeton University (2001)
- SAIS-Novartis International Journalism Award for her work in East Timor (2000)
- Asian Television Awards for Indonesia (1999)
- Fulbright Fellowship to the Philippines in 1986