Her detention in a digital libel case involving her online news site, Rappler, comes amid a crackdown on the news media by the president.
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Maria Ressa, Philippine Journalist Critical of Rodrigo Duterte, Is Arrested
Her detention in a digital libel case involving her online news site, Rappler, comes amid a crackdown on the news media by the president.
Time Names Person of the Year for 2018: Jamal Khashoggi and Other Journalists
The honorees, called “the guardians of truth,” included the staff of the Capital Gazette newspapers in Maryland, two Reuters journalists imprisoned in Myanmar and a journalist in the Philippines.
Philippine Journalist, a Thorn to Duterte, Turns Herself In to Face Charges
Maria Ressa, a veteran journalist, was charged with five counts of tax fraud in what her news organization, Rappler, said was part of a broader attack on the news media by the government.