Maria Ressa is co-founder and CEO of Rappler, one of the Philippines first multimedia news sites, and has gained world renown for her work combatting fake news. However, Ressa’s investigative journalism and recent documentary have put her career and even her life in jeopardy, as she has been convicted of cyber-libel by the Philippines’ Duterte-led government.

The case against Ressa has been widely condemned by the international community as a thinly-veiled attempt to weaken freedom of the press and silence criticism of the Filipino government, yet Ressa still remains in danger of imprisonment. Join Network 20/20 in partnership with the Institute for Current World Affairs for a conversation with Maria Ressa, voted one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2019 and Person of the Year in 2018, as Steven Butler, Asia Program Coordinator at the Committee to Protect Journalists, leads a discussion of Ressa’s work and the future of freedom of the press.

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