Awards & Recognition
★2021 Nobel Peace Prize
★2024 Cannes LionHeart recipient
★2025 Missouri Honor Medal from University of Missouri School of Journalism
★2018 Knight International Journalism Award
★2018 World Association of Newspapers Golden Pen of Freedom Award
★2017 Democracy Award from National Democratic Institute
★Columbia Journalism Award
★Sergei Magnitsky Award for Investigative Journalism
Notable Facts
→First Filipino to receive Nobel Peace Prize and first journalist since 1935
→Co-founder and CEO of Rappler, Philippines' top digital news site
→Former CNN bureau chief in Manila and Jakarta for nearly 20 years
→Columbia University Professor of Practice and Distinguished Fellow
→Author of three books including 'How to Stand Up to a Dictator'
→Endured 10 arrests and multiple legal cases while fighting government persecution
→Has 484.2K Twitter followers and 113K Instagram followers
→Dual Filipino-American citizen