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A closeup of Maria Ressa with her hand up in front of her face.

Maria Ressa says journalism is democracy’s ‘first line of defense’ and Rappler won’t back down

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Time Magazine honored journalists with its Person of the Year award. The list of journalists include Maria Ressa, founder of the investigative Rappler Media in the Philippines. Ressa and Rappler have been covering extrajudicial killings in the country, part of President Rodrigo Duterte’s so-called war on drugs.

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In Manila, government-sanctioned killings are the new normal

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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte speaks during a news conference in Davao city.

‘Stop telling us what to do!’ What’s behind a Filipino leader’s scolding of Washington

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