Synopsis: The Straits Times' executive editor Sumiko Tan gets up close with newsmakers over lunch - and a selfie.

Growing up, Filipino-born Maria Ressa realised that one can be one’s worst enemy. She told herself to embrace whatever she feared, to “rob it of its sting”. Last October, she co-won the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for her journalistic work.

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