KARA DAVID is one of GMA-7’s most awarded broadcast journalists. The second of four kids of Prof. Randy David and former singer-Civil Service Commissioner Karina Constantino, she was born on Sept. 12, 1973 and finished masscomm in UP in 1994. She worked as speech writer for Sen. Ed Angara for one year then joined GMA-7 in 1995 as a production assistant. She later became a researcher then got promoted in 1998 as a reporter in “Brigada Siete”. In 2001, she joined “24 Oras” as correspondent. She later hosted her own shows like “100% Pinoy”, “Case Unclosed”, “OFW Diaries” and started doing her own docus for “I Witness”. Several docus she did for “I Witness” won awards like “Gamu-Gamo sa Dilim” (Catholic Mass Media in 2002), “Selda Inosente” (UNICEF Child Rights Award in 2003), “Buto’t Balat” (Asian TV Awards and US International Video Awards in 2005), “Gapos” (US International Video Awards in 2007), “Ambulansiyang de Paa” (George Peabody Award in 2009). In 2007, she was honored as one of UP’s outstanding alumni and as TOYM awardee.
Recently, she was chosen by Japan’s TV Iwate to do a docu on the Great East Japan Earthquake that left 15,000 people dead and hundreds more missing. The Iwate Prefecture was one of the worst hit by the quake and tsunami last year. The docu she did, “Pagbangon sa Japan”, was shown in “I Witness” last Monday, but it has a longer expanded version that will be shown tonight on GMA-7 at 10 PM.
A single mom, her daughter Julia is 11 years old and now in grade 5. Any new lovelife? “Kabe-break ko lang,” she confesses. Kara also anchors the morning Channel 11 morning news, “News to Go”, with Howie Severino.
