Because the Nobel Prize went to Maria Ressa, the Filipino journalist who has become an icon of resistance for democracy

BANGKOK – The Nobel Peace Prize to Filipino journalist Maria Ressa and Russian colleague Dmitrij Muratov unites in a single recognition an entire category of courageous journalists who are shaking the walls of many buildings of corrupt and despotic power here and there around the world.

In the archipelago where she was born to return to work as CNN chief correspondent from the southeast, the founder of the popular News Rappler site was so opposed by populist president Rodrigo Duterte from the beginning that she had her arrested twice and also imprison for one night.