April 19, 2017: SAIS Philippines Roundtable with Featured Speaker Marites D. Vitug
Roundtable with Marites D. Vitug
Journalist and Best Selling Author
Editor at Large, Rappler
Nieman Fellow, Harvard University
The Duterte Administration After Nine Months: Governance and Security
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
SAIS Rome Building, Room 806
School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW
WASHINGTON DC, 20036
U.S.-Philippines Society | 1712 N Street NW | Washington DC, 20036 | Tel. 202.525.3982
The Southeast Asia Studies Program | Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
The Johns Hopkins University | 1619 Massachusetts Ave. NW | Tel. 202.663.5837
Featured speaker: Marites Vitug
Marites Vitug is one of the Philippines’ most accomplished journalists and a bestselling author. She has written seven books on Philippine current affairs. She is the former editor of Newsbreak, a pioneering political magazine which The New York Times described her as having “spunk and spice.” Currently, she is editor at large of www.rappler.com.
Her latest book, Endless Journey, is a memoir of retired general and former national security adviser, Jose Almonte. Before that, she wrote a number of books on the Philippine Supreme Court. Hour Before Dawn: The Fall and Uncertain Rise of the Philippine Supreme Court, is a sequel to the bestselling Shadow of Doubt: Probing the Supreme Court, the first to lift the veil of the Supreme Court. Hour Before Dawn won the National Book Award for non-fiction for 2012.
Shadow of Doubt, e-book version landed in the top 10 bestselling books of Amazon in the category of Courts. The Manila Rotary Club recognized it as an outstanding non-fiction book written by a journalist in 2010. Shadow of Doubt has become a critical success and has helped change the political landscape in the Philippines.
Ms. Vitug received the Courage in Journalism Award from the US-based International Women’s Media Foundation for her reportage on the plunder of Palawan’s forests; the Journalists of the Year award (2015) from the Metrobank Foundation, the Ozanam Award from the Ateneo University in 2011, for her body of work; the University of the Philippines Outstanding Alumni Award in 2010; and the Ten Outstanding Young Filipinos award (in the field of journalism).