Lady Ann Salem

Philippines

Lady Ann Salem is a journalist and documentary filmmaker. She served as executive director of Tudla Productions, producing social documentaries from 2008 to 2014. She is one of the founders of online publication Manila Today and served as its editor since 2014. She is also IAWRT’s Communication officer from 2019. She was arrested on December 10, 2020 on planted evidence and police trumped-up charges, and was released after almost three months in jail when the court threw out the cases against her, but the government continues to appeal the cases against her. After her release, she headed the establishment of IAWRT Philippines’ Digital Safe House in 2021, continued as IAWRT Communications Officer, editor of Manila Today and National Director of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines.