Rappler

Rappler's Impunity Series (Philippines) Rappler's Impunity Series documented Rodrigo Duterte's drug war killing by killing, with Patricia Evangelista and photographer Carlo Gabuco reporting from the crime scenes and neighbourhoods where it was fought. It treated each death as a case to be examined rather than a statistic, at a time when the president was openly hostile to the site. The pressure on the newsroom was relentless. Maria Ressa was convicted of cyberlibel in 2020, shared the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize, and is still appealing at the Supreme Court, where the Solicitor General recommended acquittal in March 2026. For a book-length account, Evangelista's memoir Some People Need Killing grew out of this reporting.