The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada is hosting a talk with Pia Ranada, head of community for Rappler, a Philippines news organization, and winner of the 2024 Marshall McLuhan Award. Previously, Pia was an investigative journalist and senior reporter who covered the Duterte administration (2016-2022). As Community Lead, she is now responsible for linking journalists with communities for impact and action.
The Embassy of Canada in the Philippines awarded her the Marshall McLuhan Fellowship in November for her “exceptional commitment to journalism, using the craft to build citizens with critical information that can impact societal change” and her commitment to inform, “to enable meaningful public engagement on issues in service of the public, and illustrate how investigations, facts, and transparency can ensure meaningful democratic accountability.”
Pia will discuss how the journalist’s role is expanding beyond reporting to include creating impactful solutions to social challenges and how journalism can be more than truth-telling but also as advocacy for collaborative action. Learn more about Pia here.
