Live Blog: International Media Conference Seoul – Day 2

Maria A. Ressa, Michael Josh Villanueva

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Networked News: How New Media Is Shaping Stories in Asia and the Pacific

SEOUL, South Korea – About 300 journalists representing 100 news organizations from 27 countries in the world gather at the Yonsei University in Seoul South Korea for East-West Center’s 2012 International Media Conference. This year’s theme is “Networked News: How New Media Is Shaping Stories in Asia and the Pacific”.

Rappler CEO and Executive Editor Maria Ressa is a speaker on Day 2, part of “Digital Innovators in Asia & the US,” while Special Projects Director Michael Josh Villanueva will be conducting workshops on: “Social Media in Newsgathering & Storytelling” and how to “Supercharge your Impact through Social Media.”  Amy Pamintuan, Editor-in-Chief of The Philippine Star, is part of “Transforming Traditional Media in the Digital Age” on Day 2.

Maria and Josh are both liveblogging from the event. 

 

You might also be interested in our DAY 1 LIVE BLOG. – Rappler.com

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Maria A. Ressa

Maria Ressa has been a journalist in Asia for more than 37 years. As Rappler's co-founder, executive editor and CEO, she has endured constant political harassment and arrests by the Duterte government. For her courage and work on disinformation and 'fake news,' Maria was named Time Magazine’s 2018 Person of the Year, was among its 100 Most Influential People of 2019, and has also been named one of Time's Most Influential Women of the Century. She was also part of BBC's 100 most inspiring and influential women of 2019 and Prospect magazine's world's top 50 thinkers, and has won many awards for her contributions to journalism and human rights. Before founding Rappler, Maria focused on investigating terrorism in Southeast Asia. She opened and ran CNN's Manila Bureau for nearly a decade before opening the network's Jakarta Bureau, which she ran from 1995 to 2005. She wrote Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of al-Qaeda’s Newest Center of Operations in Southeast Asia, From Bin Laden to Facebook: 10 Days of Abduction, 10 Years of Terrorism, and How to Stand up to a Dictator.