Cathy Yang to return to business news full-time

Thought Leaders host Cathy Yang has voluntarily retired from her position as head of corporate communications at PLDT. In a disclosure on Monday, the telco giant announced that Yang opted for voluntary retirement effective December 1.

With her departure from the telco industry, Yang is returning to her roots. We have learned that she will once again cover business news, this time for One News. This means that she will soon be joining the Cignal news channel in a full-time capacity.

According to sources, Yang will headline a new daily business news program for the channel. The format is expected to resemble her old ANC program, Market Edge. While no premiere date has been set yet, sources say that it will air by the first quarter of 2025.

In the meantime, Yang will continue with her weekly interview show on the channel, Thought Leaders, which she started hosting in April 2023 while she was still with PLDT.

Yang is no stranger to delivering business news. She served as anchor and managing editor at ABS-CBN News Channel from 2015 to 2020 before transitioning to the telco industry.

During her time at ANC, she anchored Market Edge and Business Nightly, and hosted the weekly public affairs program The Boss.

Before her Kapamilya comeback, Yang spent 15 years as an anchor-reporter for international news organizations, including Reuters TV, Bloomberg, and CCTV Asia, where she covered financial news across the region.