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Pia Ranada

Pasig

Senior Reporter and Head of Community at Rappler

Journalist from the Philippines. Rappler head of community. JSK Journalism Fellow ‘22-23. TOWNS 2022. Email me at [email protected] 🌼

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  • 1 week ago | wan-ifra.org | Lucinda Jordaan |Pia Ranada

    by Lucinda Jordaan [email protected] | April 16, 2025When Reuters Digital News Report started tracking news consumption in the UK and parts of Europe in 2012, the phenomena of news avoidance soon became apparent. The trend ballooned over time, and the 2024 Report highlighted a startling offshoot: that of selective news avoidance.  This was brought home, too, by the rise of independent content creators and ‘newsfluencers’ on various social platforms.

  • 1 week ago | rappler.com | Pia Ranada

    The Philippines is getting too hot to handle, in more ways than one. It’s the height of summer, all but the privileged few with around-the-clock air-conditioning are suffering. It’s also the height of the campaign period with elections less than a month away and overseas voting already taking place. [Rappler Recap: First day of overseas voting for 2025 elections]Last Saturday, April 12, the Rappler team and our Cavite partners experienced both.

  • 1 week ago | rappler.com | Pia Ranada

    Work has begun on a nationwide master plan to improve walkability and cycling in the Philippines’ rapidly growing urban centers. But the small budget of a key agency tasked to implement it will mean significant delays, if not a derailment of the plan altogether. The plan is called the Active Transport Strategic Master Plan (ATSMP).

  • 3 weeks ago | rappler.com | Pia Ranada

    MANILA, Philippines – The Marcos government is embarking on an exciting initiative this year, 2025: formulating an Active Transport Strategic Master Plan (ATSMP). ATSMP intends to “create a comfortable, accessible, safe, sustainable, and affordable active transport system” — more pedestrian walkways, bike lanes, end-of-trip facilities for cyclists and other active transport users, and better standards and policies, according to the Department of Transportation.

  • 3 weeks ago | rappler.com | Pia Ranada

    Happy April Fools’!If you commemorate this global day of pranking, you may have played a trick or two on a friend yesterday. But in Rappler’s case, we spent the Friday before doing the opposite: teaching people how to protect themselves against scams and fraud.

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Pia Ranada
Pia Ranada @piaranada
13 Mar 25

A piece I wrote to process what we’re all witnessing. Reconcling the man arrested, and the Duterte I covered at the height of his power https://t.co/GdjxNzcb8K

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Pia Ranada @piaranada
27 Feb 25

RT @CanEmbPH: Journalist and @rapplerdotcom head of community @piaranada begins her lecture tour in Toronto as the McLuhan Fellow for Excel…

Pia Ranada
Pia Ranada @piaranada
23 Dec 24

The best of our journalism in 2024. Impact is how we measure our work because this is the metric that builds trust and shows why journalism matters. Salamat sa mga taong sumusuporta sa malayang pamamahayag. https://t.co/clpz8cYhZo