https://www.scmp.com/rss/330908/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Five years ago, we got an email from Maria Ressa, a journalist in the Philippines. She’d left her “traditional media” job in late 2011, she said, to “strike out” on her own. Energised by the possibilities of technology and the rapid adoption of mobile phones in her country, she had co-founded Rappler, and it already had become the Philippines No. 1 digital-only news site. It was more than that, though. Maria and her Rappler colleagues saw a civic mission in what they were doing. They organised... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/2186593/we-backed-maria-ressas-rappler-if-you-believe-philippines-you?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/2186593/we-backed-maria-ressas-rappler-if-you-believe-philippines-you?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 18 Feb 2019 07:12:58 +0000