People Asia magazine honors GMA Network's Jessica Soho

GMA Network VP for News Programs and multi-awarded broadcast journalist Jessica Soho was recently honored by People Asia Magazine as one of the 2009 People of the Year Awardees for her outstanding achievements and societal contributions delivered through media. Arguably the most awarded Filipino journalist, Soho was especially cited for having received the prestigious and much-coveted George Foster Peabody Award in Investigative Journalism in 2000, the Ten Outstanding Young Men Award in 1993, and the Catholic Mass Media Award for Best Public Service Program for her Q Channel 11 program Reunions in 2009 – just among the many awards in her well-kept roster. Soho is also the host of GMA public affairs program Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho. Referred to by People Asia as the “news icon" whose work demands objectivity at all times, the magazine further acknowledged Soho’s ability to “achieve balance through walking on the tight rope as ‘humanely’ as possible." “I am grateful and honored for having been chosen one of the People of the Year for 2009 by such a prestigious magazine," Soho said. “I give back the honor and the glory to our viewers who have supported all of my programs for the past 25 years that I have been a broadcast journalist. And also to everyone who has helped me become who I am today. I will forever be grateful." Soho received the People of the Year Award during the awarding ceremony held last January 21 at the Sofitel Philippine Plaza in Pasay City. - GMANews.TV