Jessica Soho is an award-winning television celebrity and journalist. A “Ka Doroy Valencia” awardee given by the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas. She was also included in the 100 Filipino Women of Distinction chosen during the centennial celebration of the Philippines. Jessica Soho is the first Filipino to won the New York Film Festival for Coverage of a Breaking Story where she covered the story of hostage crisis in Cagayan Valley.
In 1999, she received the popular George Foster Peabody Award together with GMA Network on her documentaries on “Kamao Death Sport” and “Kidneys for Sale business”. Where she discovered a remote area where people living there sell their Kidney in order to buy food to eat. After the exposé, the government was forced to intervene in the situation. This put Jessica and her team internationally acknowledged.
On October 14, 2008 she was awarded as Outstanding Citizen on her TV segment “Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho”. It was also recognized as the Most Development-Oriented Magazine Program and she got two awards- the Best Magazine Program Host in the Gandingan and the Best Public Affairs Program Host in 2009. The UPLB Isko’t Iska’s Broadcast Choice Awards Gandingan 2009 was the first award-giving ceremony in the field of broadcasting instituted by Community Broadcasters’ Society (UPCBS) of the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB). It aims to honor to the best broadcast programs that air over TV and radio
Currently, Jessica Soho is a host, reporter, producer, and presently the acting news director and Vice President of GMA News.
