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Jessica Soho is a Filipina broadcast journalist known as the host of the news magazine program Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho on GMA Network and the newscast State of the Nation with Jessica Soho on GMA News TV.
Soho is a multi-awarded journalist. On 1998, Soho became the first Filipino to win the British Fleet Journalism Award. On 1998, Soho and the I-Witness team received a George Foster Peabody Award for the "Kidneys for Sale" and "Kamao". Soho's story of a hostage crisis in Cagayan Valley made her the first Filipino to win in the New York Film Festival for Coverage of a Breaking Story.
Soho was born in La Union province, a daughter of Abelardo Soho, a government employee, and Maura Aspiras, an agriculturist.
Soho's grandmothers, Sixta "Apo Ittang" Aspiras and Concepcion "Cion" Soho influenced her in telling stories. At the UP College of Mass Communications, Soho met the journalist Luis Beltran who inspired Soho to finish Mass Communications.
Soho joined GMA News in January 1985. Soho's first voice-over report was a feature story on the inauguration of the Light Rail Transit from Baclaran to Monumento. Soho was later assigned to the defense and military beat.
Soho is the first Filipino to win in the New York Film Festival for Coverage of a Breaking Story for her account of a hostage crisis in Cagayan Valley. She also received the Ka Doroy Valencia Award given by the Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas. In 1994, she received the Grand Prize from the Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union for her coverage of a breaking news story. Soho is included in the list of 100 Filipino Women of Distinction chosen during the centennial celebration of the Philippines.
Soho helped conceptualize the one-hour documentary television program I-Witness The documentaries "Kidneys for Sale" and "Kamao" made her the first Filipino reporter, with GMA Network as the first Filipino network, to win the George Foster Peabody Award in 1999.
Soho was also recognized by the New York Film and Television Festival Award for her coverage of a hostage crisis in Cagayan Valley, and the Asian Television Award for Best News and Current Affairs Special for "Saksi Sa Kasaysayan".
Soho's programs Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho and State of the Nation with Jessica Soho are both locally and internationally recognized. Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho and State of the Nation are two of the GMA News programs recognized by the Peabody Awards in 2014 for the coverage on Super Typhoon Yolanda. State of the Nation also earned Soho consecutive wins for Most Trusted News Presenter by Reader's Digest Asia.
In 2015, Soho receives the Doctor of Humanities, Honoris Causa, conferred to her by the University of Northeastern Philippines during its 67th Commencement Exercises on April.
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