Patricia Evangelista on journalism
Patricia Evangelista is an investigative journalist for the Filipino news website Rappler and author of Some People Need Killing (2023), a memoir about her time reporting on the so-called war on drugs in the Philippines. The brutal six-year crackdown under former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte resulted in the killing of thousands of alleged drug sellers and users, the vast majority of them in extrajudicial executions. In 2025, Duterte was arrested and transferred to the custody of the International Criminal Court in The Hague in the Netherlands, where he faces charges of crimes against humanity.
In this video from the Centre de Cultura Contemporà nia de Barcelona (CCCB), Evangelista reflects on both the gratification and the extraordinary toll of covering the subject, as well as the broader purpose of the work. Central to her conception of journalism is the power of stories, which can flatten people into ‘scum’ when told by a talented demagogue or restore their humanity when captured by a thorough and thoughtful journalist.
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