Perhaps one of the differences is that Duterte keeps his promises. And, in 2016, a man named Rodrigo Duterte ran for the Presidency of the Philippines. I covered the aftermath of internal conflict. I don’t wait very long.įor most of the time I spent as an investigative reporter for Rappler, I covered disasters, I covered massacres. And then I go home, to wait for the next catastrophe. I pack my bags, I interview the survivors, I file my stories. That means I go to places where people die. Well, I’ve been a trauma journalist for more than a decade. But let’s start with you: you were a staff writer at a newspaper in the Philippines that has a reputation for intense independence, and rare independence. Your book is one of the most remarkable pieces of narrative nonfiction I have read in a long, long time. It has been edited for length and clarity. She is a very rare talent our conversation below was blunt-“Can I curse?”-and open. Now, in “Some People Need Killing,” she has written a journalistic masterpiece. She wrote news pieces, and she wrote longer investigations. Evangelista was on the street every night, surveying the horror, examining the corpses, talking to the grieving families, and prodding the police. Ressa would surely be the first to say that there would have been no Nobel, and very little truth in the Duterte era, were it not for the meticulous reporting of Evangelista and others like her. The site was co-founded by the journalist Maria Ressa, who, along with Dmitry Muratov, won the Nobel Peace Prize two years ago. Evangelista covered the killings, which left thousands dead, for the independent news platform Rappler. It is hardly written with Orwellian cool, but it stands next to “ Homage to Catalonia.” Evangelista’s title comes from a vigilante, whose offhand comment to her exemplified the bloodiness of the Duterte Presidency and its extralegal drug wars. Our topic was her new book, “ Some People Need Killing,” about the reign of Rodrigo Duterte. Recently, a Filipina reporter named Patricia Evangelista came by the office, for an interview for The New Yorker Radio Hour. It is a cliché to compare such writers to George Orwell or, more lately, with justice, Martha Gellhorn. Over the years, I’ve had the honor of reading and publishing reporters who are as resilient as they are intelligent: Katherine Boo, Jon Lee Anderson-I won’t go on because the list is as long as it is distinguished.
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