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Author Description Maria Angelita Ressa is a Filipino American journalist and author, the co-founder and CEO of <a href="https://www.rappler.com" rel="nofollow noopener">Rappler</a>, and the first independent Filipino Nobel laureate. She previously spent nearly two decades working as a lead investigative reporter in Southeast Asia for CNN.<br /><br />In 2020, she was convicted of cyberlibel by the Philippine government under the controversial Philippine Anti-Cybercrime law, a move condemned by human rights groups and journalists as an attack on press freedom.<br /><br />Ressa was awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize jointly with Dmitry Muratov for “their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for democracy and lasting peace."

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