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Maria Ressa offers a guide to defending democracy in 'The Fight Back'

PBS NewsHour29 October 2026, 22:30 UTCPhilippines

Journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa chronicled her fight against the Duterte regime in the Philippines in her 2022 book, "How to Stand Up to a Dictator." She detailed attacks on her reporting and her newsroom's struggle to defend press freedom and democracy. In a new book, Ressa warns of other threats to those same freedoms. Amna Nawaz spoke with Ressa about "The Fight Back."

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