‘War reporting was easier’: Maria Ressa’s journey to Nobel prize winner

Since she launched news site Rappler, the Philippine journalist has faced abuse from Rodrigo Duterte's supporters

Maria Ressa, the Philippine journalist and 2021 Nobel peace prize laureate, spent two decades working as an investigative reporter, foreign correspondent and CNN bureau chief before heading the news division of her country's biggest TV news channel.

But none of it prepared her for the torrent of threats, hatred and abuse she has faced from supporters of President Rodrigo Duterte since she co-founded the investigative news site Rappler with three fellow female journalists in 2012, growing it into one of the country's most popular news outlets.