Ressa, Maria: - Maria Ressa is the co-recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for her work defending freedom of expression and democracy.
She grew up in the Philippines and the United States and currently lives in Manila..
Among the many other awards she has received are the prestigious Golden Pen of Freedom Award from the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers, the Knight International Journalism Award from the International Center for Journalists, the Shorenstein Journalism Award from Stanford University, and the Sergei Magnitsky Award for Investigative Journalism.
She was TIME Magazine\'s Person of the Year in 2018 and won the UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize in 2021.
She is CEO, cofounder, and president of Rappler, the Philippines\' top digital news site, and has been a journalist in Asia for over thirty-six years.
Ressa, Maria: - Maria Ressa is the co-recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for her work defending freedom of expression and democracy
