One News Anchors Cathy Yang and Gretchen Ho Secure Top Honors at the Asian Academy Creative Awards 2025
Money Talks with Cathy Yang was awarded Best News Program for its exceptional breaking news coverage and market analysis. Meanwhile, Gretchen Ho is this year’s National Winner for Best Factual Presenter for her insightful and comprehensive reporting.
Two leading anchors of Cignal’s premier news channel One News -- Cathy Yang and Gretchen Ho -- have won the national awards at the prestigious Asian Academy Creative Awards 2025 for their outstanding work in business and public affairs journalism.
Money Talks with Cathy Yang was awarded Best News Program for its exceptional breaking news coverage and market analysis. In the winning episode, Cathy Yang provided authoritative and timely reporting on the Philippine President’s meeting with U.S. President Trump, which resulted in a 19% tariff for Philippines exports to the United States
Launched on February 10, 2025, Money Talks with Cathy Yang has set a new benchmark in Philippine business news reporting by leveraging on Cathy’s decades of local and international experience as a broadcast journalist. Last year, she was also the National Winner for Best Factual Presenter for the program Thought Leaders.
“On behalf of my team, thank you AACA, for the honor to represent the Philippines,” says Cathy Yang. “We are immensely humbled that the judges have deemed us most outstanding among all other news programs in the Philippines, in business news or otherwise, and are now on our way to competing at the Grand Finals with our fellow regional peers," she added.
Meanwhile, Gretchen Ho is this year’s National Winner for Best Factual Presenter for her insightful and comprehensive reporting on Morning Matters.
Gretchen’s winning entry featured two key stories. The first was the on-the-ground report from the Vatican, where she delivered a self-shot video report following news of the late Pope Francis’ deteriorating health. The second was an in-studio interview where she discussed with Senate President Chiz Escudero critical legislative matters, including the then looming impeachment trial against Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte.
Morning Matters is Gretchen’s first solo news-interview program, where she provides context to the biggest news stories by engaging with the day’s newsmakers from various fields with her trademark wit and charm. A former volleyball star turned broadcast journalist, she has become one of the country's most influential TV news personalities with more than five million social media followers.
On receiving the award, Gretchen Ho said: “With the many events shaping our country and our world today, the responsibility of delivering the news has never been more important. Above all, truth must remain at the heart of that mission. Receiving this award is an immense honor. I am grateful to Cignal for allowing me to evolve in many ways as a broadcast journalist.“
Cathy Yang and Gretchen Ho will now go on to represent the Philippines in the AACA Regional Finals, to be awarded at the Grand Awards Gala in Singapore on December 4.
