Ressa Resigns as ABS CBN News VP
Journalist Maria Ressa has resigned from her post as ABS-CBN’s vice president for news and current affairs.
In a statement released on Oct. 11, Ressa said she decided not to renew her contract which expires on Jan. 3, 2011. She added she will go on terminal leave starting Nov. 15.
Ressa will be replaced by Regina Reyes, presently ABS-CBN’s North America News Bureau chief. The transition was said to have started last Oct. 18, as Ressa disclosed.
In 2004, Ressa took over ABS-CBN’s news and current affairs team. Together with then current affairs head Luchi Cruz Valdes and head of newsgathering Charie Villa, a Standards and Ethics Manual was released under her leadership.
She actively took part in opposing threats and attacks against journalists during the Arroyo administration, speaking against the arrest of journalists covering the Manila Peninsula standoff and co-signing the P10-M class suit against police and Palace officials.
She has also spearheaded ABS-CBN’s citizen journalism efforts, beginning from TV Patrol World‘s Citizen Patrol, to the election initiative Boto Mo Ipatrol Mo. The latter, which involves tapping people to report incidents using text messaging and social networking, was carried on post-election, through “Bayan Mo Ipatrol Mo: Ako ang Simula“.
Ressa had a brief stint in the then newly-reopened ABS-CBN, working for Che-Che Lazaro’s newsmagazine Probe in 1987. When the show was cancelled, she joined Lazaro in leaving ABS-CBN, to put up Probe Productions, which would eventually produce “The Probe Team” for GMA-7. She moved to Indonesia in 1995 to become correspondent for CNN’s Jakarta Bureau.
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