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Catching up on Maria Ressa President Rodrigo Duterte has called Maria Ressa’s website, Rappler, “fake news” and his supporters have attacked the journalist on social media. Ressa says at one point she was getting 90 hate messages per hour https://t.co/AhsfEZyATp pic.twitter.com/Dh38KaohGg — 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) November 11, 2019 "We've been living through three years of this kind of hell." Maria Ressa talks to Bill Whitaker about reporting on the Duterte administration in the Philippines. Sunday, on 60 Minutes https://t.co/tY6rySLCGc — 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) November 9, 2019 Rappler founder Maria Ressa discusses the threat she is under for aggressively covering the Duterte Administration and its wars on drugs. See the full report, here: https://cbsn.ws/36PTNON Maria Ressa has been threatened with rape, prison and death for her reporting on President Rodrigo Duterte's bloody drug war. Duterte's administration says her work is "fake ne...

CBS New's Elaine Quijano makes history as first Asian-American debate moderator Elaine Quijano is also the first digital news journalist to host a debate. The debate, which will take place on Oct. 4 at Longwood University in Virginia, is the only one scheduled between VP hopefuls Democratic Senator Tim Kaine and Republican Governor Mike Pence. About Elaine Quijano : Elaine Quijano is a Filipino-American . She grew up in the Skokie and Morton Grove suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. She received a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1995 from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.  Read more at  Wikipedia . She is an anchor for CBSN , the CBS News 24-hour digital streaming network, and a correspondent for CBS News contributing to all CBS News broadcasts and platforms. In her role at CBSN, Quijano has anchored the streaming network’s coverage of primary, debate and political convention nights throughout the 2016 presidential campaign. Quijano anchors weekdays o...