Maria Ressa

This is Maria Ressa like you've never seen her before. In her most personal interview yet, I speak to my mentor and friend... who also happens to have won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2021. Maria talks about the most formative moments of her life, how she sticks to her values in a fragmented world, and what the Nobel meant to her. "The minute you become corrupt, you can't help it," she says. "You will follow a path. You will never be clean again, right?" On this assignment, we get up close and personal with one of the most famous journalists of our time. Note: This interview was filmed in August 2025 Subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or via your favorite podcast app: https://onassignmentwithme.transistor.fm Follow @natashya_g on YouTube for video episodes, and on Instagram, Tiktok, X and Facebook for updates. Support independent journalism and this podcast: buymeacoffee.com/natashya_g To know more about my work, go to natashyagutierrez.com #mariaressa #journalism #nobelpeaceprize #corruption #philippines

Carmina and Patch fan-girl over their pick for International Women's Day 2023. They discuss Maria Ressa's genius, both in journalism and more. Join them as they #holdtheline with Maria Ressa. To learn more: HOW TO STAND UP TO A DICTATOR: THE FIGHT FOR OUR FUTURE , Nobel Prize lecture: Maria Ressa, Nobel Peace Prize 2021 , The Nobel Prize: Maria Ressa Facts , A Thousand Cuts (full documentary) | FRONTLINE , International Women’s Day 2023 , Maria Ressa on tax evasion acquittal: ‘Today, facts win, truth wins, justice wins’ , TIME: Person of the Year 2018 , From Bin Laden to Facebook: 10 Days of Abduction, 10 Years of Terrorism , Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of Al-Qaeda's Newest Center , The Energizer Bunny of Nobel Laureates , Recollections of Maria Ressa During Our HS Years , Journalist Maria Ressa explains ‘How To Stand Up to a Dictator , and Who Is Maria Ressa and What is Rappler ? To support FilTrip, go to the Patreon page here and PayPal page here . Visit https://filtrip.buzzsprout.com . Drop a note at thefiltrip@gmail.com . Thanks to FilTrip's sponsor SOLEPACK . Visit thesolepack.com for more details. See https://www.buzzsprout.com/privacy for Privacy Policy.

In another big week for content moderation, internal Twitter emails detailing the decision to block the Hunter Biden laptop story were released, and Ye was suspended from Twitter. Then, welcome to Prof G University: Scott helps us understand how to make good business decisions for stakeholders. Plus, The DOJ wants an independent review into FTX’s bankruptcy, Tim Cook is on damage control on Capitol Hill, and Trump wants to flush the constitution down the toilet. Then, we’re joined by our Friend of Pivot, Nobel Prize winner Maria Ressa, to talk about democracy and dictatorship. Maria’s new book, “How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight For Our Future,” is out now . You can find Maria on Twitter at @mariaressa. Send us your questions! Call 855-51-PIVOT or go to nymag.com/pivot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this final episode, Maria Ressa, Co-Founder and CEO of Rappler interviews Julia Gillard, Former Prime Minister of Australia and Chair of the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at King’s College London, about her experience fighting gendered double standards in Australia and how she's been able to put her values into action within politics through her unrivaled optimism.

Over the last several years, we’ve learned the hard way that disinformation, when combined with the power and reach of social media, can radicalize, divide, and destabilize communities -- and even entire countries. In this episode, Hillary talks with social media and technology expert Tristan Harris about how we got here, and what we need to do to mitigate the influence of Big Tech on our democracy. She also speaks with award-winning Filipino-American journalist Maria Ressa about why the Philippines’ shift away from democracy and toward authoritarianism should serve as a warning to us all. Tristan Harris spent three years as a Google Design Ethicist developing a framework for how technology should “ethically” steer the thoughts and actions of billions of people from screens. A featured subject in the Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma , Tristan is now co-founder & president of the Center for Humane Technology, whose mission is to reverse “human downgrading” and re-align technology with humanity. He co-hosts the Center for Humane Technology's Your Undivided Attention podcast with co-founder Aza Raskin. For her courage and work on disinformation and “fake news,” Maria Ressa was named TIME Magazine’s 2018 Person of the Year, and has also been named one of TIME’s Most Influential Women of the Century. A journalist in Asia for nearly 35 years, Maria co-founded Rappler, the top digital-only news site in the Philippines. Maria has endured constant political harassment and arrests by the Duterte government, forced to post bail eight times to stay free. In June of 2020, Maria was found guilty of Cyber Libel charges which includes a sentence of up to six years in prison. Maria is profiled in Frontline’s A Thousand Cuts, directed by Ramona Diaz, and now streaming online on pbs.org/frontline and YouTube. The film is also available to stream in the PBS Video App and on PBS Documentaries Prime Video Channel. Full transcript here . Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

President Biden was sworn in a week ago, but we’re still dealing with the emotional and global turmoil left by the previous administration. The Cut talks to journalists Olivia Nuzzi and Maria Ressa, who both cover their country's presidents. And they have both learned ways to deal with the last four years of fear and anxiety. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A few weeks ago, Ramona Diaz's documentary, A Thousand Cuts, was released on Youtube for Independence Day. The film is an unflinching look into Duterte's Philippines and the attack on news website Rappler during the 2018 senatorial election period. We talk to director Ramona Diaz and the film's subject, Maria Ressa, about the trials and tribulations of being truthtellers in a country that persecutes such people, reasons why they still love the Philippines, and how well George Clooney makes coffee. #defendpressfreedom

[This episode originally aired on November 5, 2019] Maria Ressa is arguably one of the bravest journalists working in the Philippines today. As co-founder and CEO of the media site Rappler , she has withstood death threats, multiple arrests and a rising tide of populist fury that she first saw on Facebook, in the form of a strange and jarring personal attack. Through her story, she reveals, play by play, how an aspiring strongman can use social media to spread falsehoods, sow confusion, intimidate critics and subvert democratic institutions. Nonetheless, she argues Silicon Valley can reverse these trends, and fast. First, tech companies must "wake up," she says, to the threats they've unleashed throughout the Global South. Second, they must recognize that social media is intrinsically designed to favor the strongman over the lone dissident and the propagandist over the truth-teller, which is why it has become the central tool in every aspiring dictator's playbook. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Maria Ressa is a highly-regarded journalist and author in the Philippines. As an outspoken critic of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte she was arrested on multiple occasions for critical reporting on the government. Maria is one of the journalists included in the Time's Person of the Year 2018, and in 2019, she received a Tribute honour from the Canadian Journalism Foundation for "her powerful defence of truth in the face of daunting obstacles, including threats to her life”. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.uncommons.ca

Maria Ressa is arguably one of the bravest journalists working in the Philippines today. As co-founder and CEO of the media site Rappler , she has withstood death threats, multiple arrests and a rising tide of populist fury that she first saw on Facebook, in the form of a strange and jarring personal attack. Through her story, she reveals, play by play, how an aspiring strongman can use social media to spread falsehoods, sow confusion, intimidate critics and subvert democratic institutions. Nonetheless, she argues Silicon Valley can reverse these trends, and fast. First, tech companies must "wake up," she says, to the threats they've unleashed throughout the Global South. Second, they must recognize that social media is intrinsically designed to favor the strongman over the lone dissident and the propagandist over the truth-teller, which is why it has become the central tool in every aspiring dictator's playbook. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Rappler CEO and co-founder Maria Ressa got her start as a journalist in the Philippines in the 1980s and has seen the pendulum of democracy swing in both directions since. In her interview with Andrew Keen, Ressa —who was among the journalists named Person of the Year by Time Magazine in 2018 — dives into the way that "lies laced with anger" have spread faster than facts across social media, playing to the worst of human nature and undermining democracy. As we find ourselves in a political environment she likens to dystopia and chaos, Ressa asks us all to reflect on the values that guide us.

Storyology 2017’s international keynote speaker, Maria Ressa, discusses earning and keeping an audience's trust in post-truth world. The CEO of online news site Rappler also offers invaluable insights into freedom of speech and the state-controlled media in her home country, The Philippines.