#mariaressa

Last week, I found myself sitting next to one of my heroes—journalist and Nobel laureate Maria Ressa. "I'm reading your book!" she said. She even pulled out her tablet to prove it. You could have knocked me over with a feather. Naturally, I made sure to give her a signed hard copy. I toiled over The Nerd Reich in obscurity, never quite sure if anyone would care. But two months after its release, the momentum continues to build in the most surreal ways. #NerdReich #MariaRessa #Books

From Nobel Prize Winning journalist #MariaRessa: "The Rappler co-founder and chief executive, and 2021 Nobel laureate, called for collective action 'This is existential for the planet – if journalism doesn’t survive, democracy dies,' she said....'We realised there is no future for digital news unless we build our own tech, because there are only three ways a digital news site, or any digital site, gets traffic: direct, search or social search.... With the roll-out of AI search,… 🧵 1/2