The Standard (Philippines)

The Standard

Front page dated February 23, 2015
Type Newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) MST Management, Inc. (Kamahalan Publishing Corporation)
Publisher Rolando Estabillo
President Arnold Liong
Editor Jojo Robles
Founded 1987 (Manila Standard)
1999 (Today)
2005 (Manila Standard Today, merged)
2015 (The Standard)
Political alignment Right-wing, Conservative
Language English
Headquarters Manila, Philippines
Website The Standard

The Standard is a majority broadsheet newspaper in the Philippines. It is owned by the Romualdez family. Romualdezes, thru congressman Martin Romualdez also owns Journal Publications, Inc., the proprietor of the People's Journal, a tabloid newspaper.

Initially established as the Manila Standard, it merged with another newspaper of record, Today, on March 6, 2005 and became Manila Standard Today or MST and recently rebranded as The Standard. The news organization maintains its quality to be one of the trusted news sources in the Philippines.

The Standard's business and editorial offices are located at the 6th floor of the Universal Re Building, 106 Paseo de Roxas Avenue cor. Perea Street, Legaspi Village, Makati City.

Background

Manila Standard first edition, February 11, 1987
Manila Standard Today logo
The July 9, 2005 front page of the Manila Standard Today

Previous incarnations

Rod Reyes, one of the newspaper columnists during the dark era and once manned the operations of GMA Radio Television Arts, planned to put up a newspaper that time, he then invited the family of Spanish-Filipino businessman Manuel Elizalde to be the owners of this new-fledging broadsheet, initially named as Manila Standard and with 19 pages on the first issue, this was founded in February 11, 1987, the offices where then located at the bustling Ayala Avenue in the Makati CBD.[1]

In 1989, the group of companies owned by Andres Soriano III bought out the Elizalde group and renamed the company Kagitingan Publications, and relocated the offices in the Port Area, Manila.

In June 1991, the group of businessman Alfonso Yuchengco bought into the company and spun off the publishing company. It was incorporated as Kamahalan Publishing Corporation. Kagitingan Publications was renamed Kagitingan Printing Press Inc., which continues to print the New Standard.

In 1997, businessman Enrique K. Razon Jr., chairman and president of the International Container Terminal Services Inc., acquired the shares of the Yuchengcos and bought out the Soriano group to become the sole owner of Kamahalan Publishing Corporation and Kagitingan Printing Press Inc.[1]

Victor Agustin took reigns as chairman of the Editorial Board in 2008. Under his term, the company formally adopted an advocacy for the environment.

In 2010, just as the Aquino administration took the reins of power, ownership of the Manila Standard Today changed hands again. This time, the Razon group sold its interest to the Romualdez group as Razon established Bloomberry Resorts & Hotels Corporation, owner of the Solaire Resort & Casino.[1]

As The Standard

On November 20, 2014, in a grand launch held at the New World Hotel Makati and visited by the diplomatic corps and government officials, MST was relanched to the public as The New Standard (temporary name for a few weeks) and renamed as The Standard in time of the 28th anniversary in March 2015.[2]

The Standard's tallboy broadsheet format is similar to New York Post and the format is bigger than tabloids and smaller than newspapers with pictures as the main inset of the front page. The new format first implemented in the weekend issues before the full makeover happened in the weekday issues since February 23, 2015. It also launched The Social Standard, a news opinion-based web portal, aside for the online version of TNS and Standard Talks, a political/socio-economical forum-based discussion seened online.

TS were recently named as the Newspaper of the Year in the 2015 Rotary Club of Manila Journalism Awards due to balanced and crucial reporting on current issues, including the exposed story on the involvement of Wang Bo, a Chinese drug lord as the primary suspect in the BBL payola scam.

Notable columnists

References

  1. 1 2 3 "A man of letters; a father of journalists". Manila Times. 16 April 2010. Retrieved 6 May 2014.
  2. Ronnel Domingo (November 20, 2014). "Manila Standard Today to be relaunched as The New Standard". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved February 23, 2015.

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