Maria Ressa

Jan 25, 2025 | rappler.com | Maria Ressa

Rappler CEO Maria Ressa and Irish author Colum McCann hold a dialogue to mark the Jubilee of the World of Communications at the Paul VI Hall in Vatican City on Saturday, January 25. Ressa, the first Filipino Nobel laureate, is currently at the Vatican City after Catholics welcomed the start of the Jubilee or the Catholic Holy Year. A Jubilee usually happens every 25 years, unless the Pope orders a special one to raise awareness about a specific issue or celebrate a milestone.

Oct 23, 2024 | amandla.org.za | Jeff Rudin |Maria Ressa |Ray Mahlaka |writes Branko Brkic

“Truth,” writes Branko Brkic and Maria Ressa in a recent Daily Maverick article, “is being relativised daily; what once was a common understanding of material reality is today often supplanted by fact-free interpretation. In many instances, the very form of the word Truth carries the meaning of Lie.”Reason, however, precludes the relativism of truth, which closes off critical analysis, an issue to which we will return in Part 3.

Oct 22, 2024 | dailymaverick.co.za | Jeff Rudin |Maria Ressa |Ray Mahlaka |write Branko Brkic

SELECTIVE PERCEPTIONS OP-ED South Africa has the third-largest public sector wage bill as a proportion of GDP in the world, which at about 10.5% of GDP greatly exceeds that of countries like the US, UK, Australia and Japan. But this masks the fact that there are 139,811 workers on the bottom three levels earning between R123,741 and R159,879 a year in the world’s most unequal society. Part 1 in a three-part series.

Sep 28, 2024 | rappler.com | Branko Brkic |Maria Ressa

2024 A.D. is testing our modern societies in ways we once hoped would never be repeated. Autocratic regimes and aspiring dictators around the world have thrown a gauntlet to freedoms across borders, races and religions. Modern conflicts span the entire globe and are fought in an information expanse that is overwhelming in its reach and power. New technologies, and the platforms they enable, are battlefields on which our future is being decided — often without our permission and against our will.

Sep 28, 2024 | prensa.com | Branko Brkic |Maria Ressa

Querido/a lector/a, ciudadano/a, ser humano,2024 d.C. está retando a nuestras sociedades modernas en formas que esperábamos que nunca se repitieran. Regímenes autocráticos y aspirantes a dictadores de todo el mundo han desafiado a las libertades más allá de fronteras, razas y religiones. Los conflictos modernos se extienden por todo el planeta y se libran en una extensión de la información abrumadora por su alcance y poder.