Awards and Citations
Severino is one of the Philippines' most awarded journalists. His awards include:
- Neil Davis Award given to one young Asia-Pacific journalist, 1991
- CMMA best newspaper reporter, 1991
- Jaime V Ongpin Grand Prize, Investigative reporting, 1996
- Four-time winner of Rotary Club of Manila's Journalist of the Year awards
- Three-time winner of UPLB's Gandingan awards (Best Documentarist)
- Titus Brandsma Award for Leadership in Journalism, 2009
- PUP's Mabini Award for Media
- PUP's MARINGAL NA PANTAS award for contributions to historical studies, 2012
- PHL Medical Association's Rizal award for docus on Rizal
- Adamson's first Adamson Univ. Media Award, 2011
- La Sallian Scholarum Award for Best TV feature for youth, 2005
In 2007, Severino was inducted to the Rotary Club of Manila's Journalism Hall of Fame after he was named Broadcast Journalist of the Year twice and Investigative Journalist of the Year twice.
In October 2007, GMA Network released "Ten Years of Howie Severino", a DVD compilation of ten of his most notable documentaries. Included on the DVD was Huling Hala-bira, a documentary about a family living under the railroad tracks in Pandacan, Manila, which won second prize that same year in a United Nations-sponsored international broadcast competition.
In a 2009 trust survey conducted by Readers' Digest magazine, Severino was sixth on a list of most trusted Filipinos.
People Asia Magazine, in its June–July 2012 issue, named Severino one of that year's "Men Who Matter".
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