Maria Ressa to leave ABS-CBN
MANILA, Philippines – Journalist Maria Ressa formally announced Monday night she is leaving as ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs Division (NCAD) chief effective January 2011.
She will be replaced by Regina Reyes, currently ABS-CBN North America News Bureau chief.
Reyes will arrive in Manila on Oct. 18 to begin the leadership transition.
Ressa said she will not renew her contract which ends Jan. 3, 2011. She said in an internal document sent to the News and Current Affairs group that she will go on terminal leave beginning Nov. 15.
Ressa, former Jakarta bureau chief of CNN, leaves after a six-year stint as head of the network's news and current affairs unit.
Below is her internal e-mail to the ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs team which was later officially released by ABS-CBN Corporate communications:
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Dear Team,
There is a time and place for everything in our lives. My time and place as head of ABS-CBN News & Current Affairs is nearing its end.
My contract ends on Jan. 3, 2011, and I will not be renewing. I have nearly six months of accumulated leaves so I will go on terminal leave beginning Nov. 15.
It’s time for me to move on, but it’s important we transition properly and prepare our organization – and its new leader – for the challenges ahead.
Ging Reyes will be taking over as news head. She will be arriving in Manila on Oct. 18 to begin our transition. Home-grown ABS-CBN, she has more than twenty years experience as a journalist, the last eight years as North America bureau chief. Please give her your full support as she takes the helm of our multi-platform operations.
I want to thank you for six amazing, incredible years where we took risks together to help define the future of journalism and our nation. We decided to take a stand and say no to corruption; to embrace the growth of social media; and to join hands with citizen journalists to patrol our votes and our nation . Thank you for your trust and support, for following me even when I tilt at windmills.
Journalism faces challenging days ahead. Value and protect your editorial independence. I wish you clarity of thought, stamina, and courage to fight for what is right and avoid the compromise of mediocrity.
You have taught me so much about what it means to be a Filipino. While my time with this company is ending, one of the most precious things it has given me are our friendships, which I hope will continue to grow even when I’m no longer with ABS-CBN.
My very best,
Maria
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Well, well, well! I guess all the people Ms. Maria fired from ABS-CBN for incompetence and corruption are coming out of the woodwork.
Nakakatawa kayo! You can't even get out of the shadow of your old network and you are reduced to lurking in its e-pages! What happened guys? No one picked up your contracts? Aww, shucks. Well, I guess you were too old and wrinkled, or too cocky or your English are as bad as they are in your posts here.
News for you has-beens: Hate campaigns don't work. Mamatay kayo sa ngitngit.
THIS IS GOOD NEWS!
We do not need US trained journalist full of hypocrisy and intellectual prevarications. Ressa is very welcome to return to her journalism root hoity-toity US mouthpiece CNN international news for worldwide exposure.
"raised" the journalism?
I think the opposite is true. ABS-CBN turned into a tabloid rag during her tenure. Standards actually headed southwards.
Good Riddance to Ms. Ressa!
Ms. Ressa was too obnoxious, starting with the fake psycho report on presidential candidate Noynoy Aquino and her last in-your-face garbage about President Aquino being a "failure".
I bet she had an agenda, but it was a good thing her views were generally ignored.
So good riddance, punk!
Yehey no more competions
I'm glad that there will be more competitions between networks. During the time Rezza, networks are banging each other to get the first scoop but the quality of news are gone. It is a push from Rezza as if she is saying to her staffs. "DON'T SIT THERE, GET A SCOOP BY ALL MEANS EVEN IF YOU DESTROY THE LIFE OF A PERSON JUST GET THE SCOOP EVEN TRUE OR NOT JUST GIVE ME THE SCOOP" That is the way Ms Rezza is treating her staffs.
Ms. Rezza you are loser.
Indeed!!
Indeed it is long overdue. If I am the Lopezes, I fired long time back. Ms. Rezza you are a copy cut of News chief in Spiderman, where you are always yelling to your staffs and push them to much even though they disrespect he life of others and the law. Before you came, ABS-CBN news was number one with regards in delivering the news, but when become their chief it become a mess, as if a real mess.
It is a celebration from the staffs of ABS-CBN. Right now your staffs will be plastic to you and saying good words to you but deep in their heart they are overjoyed. You teach them to become a plastic person.
Indeed!!
Indeed it is long overdue. If I am the Lopezes, I fired long time back. Ms. Rezza you are a copy cut of News chief in Spiderman, where you are always yelling to your staffs and push them to much even though they disrespect he life of others and the law. Before you came, ABS-CBN news was number one with regards in delivering the news, but when become their chief it become a mess, as if a real mess.
It is a celebration from the staffs of ABS-CBN. Right now your staffs will be plastic to you and saying good words to you but deep in their heart they are overjoyed. You teach them to become a plastic person.
Bad Management
The New Team has been poorly managed over the years. The resignation is LONG OVERDUE.
Indeed!!
Indeed it is long overdue. If I am the Lopezes, I fired long time back. Ms. Rezza you are a copy cut of News chief in Spiderman, where you are always yelling to your staffs and push them to much even though they disrespect he life of others and the law. Before you came, ABS-CBN news was number one with regards in delivering the news, but when become their chief it become a mess, as if a real mess.
It is a celebration from the staffs of ABS-CBN. Right now your staffs will be plastic to you and saying good words to you but deep in their heart they are overjoyed. You teach them to become a plastic person.
Indeed!!
Indeed it is long overdue. If I am the Lopezes, I fired long time back. Ms. Rezza you are a copy cut of News chief in Spiderman, where you are always yelling to your staffs and push them to much even though they disrespect he life of others and the law. Before you came, ABS-CBN news was number one with regards in delivering the news, but when become their chief it become a mess, as if a real mess.
It is a celebration from the staffs of ABS-CBN. Right now your staffs will be plastic to you and saying good words to you but deep in their heart they are overjoyed. You teach them to become a plastic person.