The seed idea for Rappler really is looking at information cascades. If you think about it, the end goal – when I was raising money for Rappler, I didn’t talk about investigative journalism, even though that’s our core. Maria Ressa Read Quote
Investigative journalism is never mass-based; it’s very focused, and you want people who are passionate about it to take it. Maria Ressa Read Quote
Now technology gives you a chance to help organize. You don’t have to wait for either the inefficiency or the corruption. You don’t have to wait for government. You can actually self-organize and build institutions bottom up. Maria Ressa Read Quote
I would give back every single award to be able to actually do our jobs as journalists without this kind of harassment. Maria Ressa Read Quote
Journalism has a check-and-balance effect to those in power, and those in power submitted themselves to it. Maria Ressa Read Quote
I think that social media platforms and technology have been the accelerator for the push for the populist-style administrations in democratically elected presidents. Maria Ressa Read Quote
After I got arrested the Filipino government unshackled me. I knew first-hand how they violated my rights and I could speak about that from experience. Maria Ressa Read Quote
Let me go back to a fundamental thing we all used to agree on: information is power. That’s why we became journalists in the first place. Maria Ressa Read Quote
