Primary Job Title Founder Primary Organization 
Rappler
Location Manila, Manila, Philippines Regions Asia-Pacific (APAC), Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Southeast Asia Gender Female
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Maria has been a journalist in Asia for more than 25 years, most of them as CNN's bureau chief in Manila then Jakarta. She became CNN's lead investigative reporter focusing on terrorism networks and wrote Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of al-Qaeda's Newest Center of Operations in Southeast Asia in 2003. The book was the first
from the region documenting the growth of Jemaah Islamiyah and its links to al-Qaeda.
