Journalists standing up for communities — an pressing dialog at SGS 2025

How can journalists give voice to communities below assault? On the Social Good Summit on November 16, be part of us for a panel dialogue about the place the craft of storytelling meets the urgency of accountability.

MANILA, Philippines – When communities are below siege and human rights are being violated, what’s the position of the journalist?

This pressing dialog takes the highlight at Social Good Summit 2025 throughout a panel dialogue with journalists and journalism champions.

For this panel, entitled “Preserving Journalism Alive for Communities and Change,” we’ll hear from the next essential voices:

• Nataliya Gumenyuk, Ukrainian struggle reporter and co-founder of Public Curiosity Journalism Lab
• Patricia Evangelista, Filipino trauma journalist and award-winning writer of Some Individuals Want Killing
• Priscilla Enriquez, president and chief government officer of James B. McClatchy Basis
• Inday Espina-Varona, Filipino investigative journalist and professional on citizen engagement

The panel shall be moderated by Rappler head of group Pia Ranada.

Our 4 panelists know what it’s prefer to be a journalist in a time when communities are focused and oppressed.

Patricia lined former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody marketing campaign in opposition to unlawful medication, which included extrajudicial killings of alleged drug addicts and sellers. She advised the story of drug struggle victims, their households, and even the paid assassins themselves to indicate how one man’s “struggle” was waged in opposition to a nation’s individuals, and its programs of due course of.

Priscilla helms a basis that has supported native newsrooms in the USA throughout the period of Donald Trump, a president who has threatened journalists, and reduce funding from public journalism. Trump’s insurance policies have thrown communities in turmoil and given rise to polarization and sharply divisive politics. At no time has native journalism been extra essential.

Inday, an investigative journalist hailing from Bacolod Metropolis, has had many years of expertise reporting on red-tagged communities, and warlordism and patronage politics in numerous elements of the Philippines. At Rappler, she had headed the regional reporting group, giving a platform for points past the nation’s capital that deserve information protection and a focus. Her work main ABS-CBN’s participatory journalism initiative Bayan Mo iPatrol Mo gave her distinctive perception into citizen engagement within the Philippines’ colourful and complex political and media panorama.

As moderator, Ranada will weave these views collectively and convey her personal expertise main Rappler’s group progress and engagement efforts, and her time as a political reporter throughout the Duterte administration.

Catch this well timed dialog by attending Social Good Summit: Make Your Transfer on November 16, from 1 pm to eight pm at Lanson Place MOA, Pasay Metropolis. You may get tickets right here. For queries, and help on buying tickets, e-mail socialgood@rappler.com.

Get to know the opposite audio system coming to SGS right here.

Be part of our breakout session on the best way to maintain your motion alive

A associated breakout session at Social Good Summit will sort out how residents can maintain their advocacies and actions alive. Individuals will hear from motion founders about how they maintain their organizations sustainable, all whereas reaching affect and milestones of their advocacy work. The dialogue shall be moderated by Rappler civic engagement head Samantha Bagayas.

At SGS, journalists, storytellers, and communities make their transfer collectively. See you on November 16! – Rappler.com