Patricia Evangelista

Patricia Evangelista is a Filipino investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker, who works in such areas as traumatic experiences of populations in situations of armed conflict, natural catastrophes, and the struggle for human rights. For seven years she was a reporter for Rappler, an independent Philippine news agency founded by Maria Ressa, for which she worked on and produced multimedia reports as well as the series “Impunity” on President Rodrigo Duterte’s war against drugs. This series was awarded the Press Award for Human Rights, three prizes from The Society of Publishers in Asia, in addition to being a finalist for the Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Journalism in Asia. She also received the Kate Webb Prize for Asian journalists doing exceptional work in difficult or dangerous conditions and has been a recipient of fellowships from the ASU Future Security, the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, and the Logan Nonfiction Program. Her book Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country (Random House, 2023; published in Catalan by Comanegra and in Spanish by Reservoir Books in 2025) gives a detailed account of the extrajudicial killings that happened between 2016 and 2022 during the Duarte mandate. It was included in the list of best non-fiction books of the year by the Times, New York Times and New Yorker, and won the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism.