Maria Ressa, CEO and Co-Founder of Rappler, a news organization in the Philippines, was announced as the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, along with Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov. In this interview, Ressa discusses what her Nobel Peace Prize will mean for journalism, the struggles of independent media, and what she will do with her time as a Shorenstein Fellow and a Center for Public Leadership Hauser Leader at Harvard Kennedy School.
For more about Maria Ressa, visit ken.sc/Ressa.
For more about the Shorenstein Center, visit Shorensteincenter.org
For more about the Center for Public Leadership, visit cpl.hks.harvard.edu.
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