Maria Ressa Quotes

We have to protect all journalists, and journalists have to be allowed to do their jobs.

Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in Russia since the fall of communism. That makes it the third most deadly country on Earth to practice journalism. That's not a record to be proud of.

Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country.

At Grozny TV, the line between journalism and government propaganda is traversed as often as a Manhattan crosswalk.

Clearly independent journalists - domestic journalists - run a high risk if they dare to take on serious investigative work.

An average of more than one journalist a week has been killed for reasons connected to his or her work.

We journalists in America take it for granted that we are not going to be killed for our work. Unfortunately, this is not true elsewhere in the world.

Turkey still has one of the highest number of imprisoned journalists in the world.

The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as not being neutral but rather as combatants by one side or the other.

I think of journalists as being bullet-proof in a way.

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.

The United States is paradise compared to China, Russia, Ecuador and Cuba, with regard to the press. And with regard to secrecy and transparency.

Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case. I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way.

The recent history of Ukraine is replete with dead journalists, beaten journalists, news agencies being shut down, and politicians being injured or killed. Most are killed in mysterious auto accidents.

I was for many years myself a journalist and it is not appropriate to say a programme should not be broadcast.

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander's boss to get that changed.

The press is a watchdog. Not an attack dog. Not a lapdog. A watchdog. Now, a watchdog can't be right all the time. He doesn't bark only when he sees or smells something that's dangerous. A good watchdog barks at things that are suspicious.

The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.

We believe that the remedy to any harm resulting from press freedom lies in press freedom itself.