Philippines Journalist Maria Ressa Honored with 2021 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize

Investigative journalist and media executive Maria Ressa of the Philippines has been named as the winner of 2021 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize. The award carries a prize money of $25,000.
Presently Ressa is the CEO of the Rappler, a Philippine online news website.
Ressa was chosen because of her more than 3-decade career as a journalist, which includes her work as CNN’s lead investigative reporter for Asia and as news chief of Philippine broadcast giant ABS-CBN.
Recently Ressa has been the target of online attacks and judicial processes for her investigative work and her position as CEO of Rappler.
The UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize was created in 1997, to honour a person, organization or institution that has made an outstanding contribution to the defence and/or promotion of press freedom anywhere in the world, especially when this has been achieved in the face of danger.