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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Top News Papers in the Philippines



1.     Philippine Daily Inquirer


The Philippine Daily Inquirer, popularly known as the Inquirer, is the most widely read broadsheet newspaper in the Philippines, with a daily circulation of 260,000 copies. It is one of the Philippines' newspapers of record. It is a member of the Asia News Network.
The Philippine Daily Inquirer was a daily newspaper founded on December 9, 1985 by publisher Eugenia Apóstol, columnist Max Solivén, together with Betty Go-Belmonte (wife of Speaker of House of the Representatives Feliciano "Sonny" Belmonte) during the last days of the regime of the Philippine dictator, Ferdinand Marcos, becoming one of the first private newspapers to be established under the Marcos regime.

Editor -            Letty Jimenez-Magsanoc

Headquarters: Makati, Philippines

2.     The Philippine Star

The Philippine Star is a daily English-language broadsheet newspaper based in Manila in the Philippines. Owned and published by PhilSTAR Daily, Inc, it was founded on July 28, 1986 by veteran journalists Max Soliven, Betty Go-Belmonte and Art Borjal in the wake of the EDSA People Power Revolution. The Philippine STAR has an established circulation in Hong Kong and in Saudi Arabia.

Editor - Isaac Belmonte

Headquarters  Manila, Philippines

3.     Manila Bulletin

The Manila Bulletin, (also known as the Bulletin and previously known as the Manila Daily Bulletin and the Bulletin Today) is the Philippines' largest broadsheet newspaper by circulation, followed by the Philippine Daily Inquirer. It bills itself as "The Philippines' Leading National Newspaper", which is its official slogan. Founded in 1900 as a shipping journal, it is the second-oldest Philippine newspaper, second only to The Manila Times. The Manila Bulletin is the Philippine's newspaper of record.
The newspaper was originally owned by a Swiss expatriate named Hans Menzi. Its name was changed from Bulletin Today on March 12, 1986

Editor -            Crispulo Icban, Jr.

Headquarters: Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines

4.     Sun Star

Sun.Star (also written Sun Star) is a major English-language newspaper in the Philippines. The newspaper is based in Cebu City and is the only major national Philippine newspaper outside Metro Manila.
Although the newspaper's main office is in Cebu City, Sun.Star also has various editions for different cities of the Philippines, each with content relevant to the area where the editions are published. Aside from the Metro Cebu edition, Sun.Star has editions for 11 other cities and areas.

·         City editions are published in Bacolod City, Baguio City, Cagayan de Oro City, Davao City, Dumaguete City, General Santos City, Iloilo City and Zamboanga City

·         Provincial editions are published for residents of Pampanga and Pangasinan. However, city editions may also carry content relevant to the provinces where they are located.

·         Regional editions are published for residents in Metro Cebu and Metro Manila. The Metro Cebu edition also carries content relevant to the province of Cebu.

All editions also carry national content, usually the same across all newspaper editions.
The Sun.Star is published as a tabloid newspaper in Bacolod, Baguio, Cagayan de Oro, Davao, Metro Cebu and Pampanga. It is an exclusively online newspaper for residents of Dumaguete, General Santos, Iloilo, Metro Manila, Pangasinan and Zamboanga City.

5.     The Manila Times

The Manila Times is the oldest existing English language newspaper in the Philippines. It is published daily by The Manila Times Publishing Corp. with editorial and administrative offices at 371 A. Bonifacio Drive, Port Area, and Manila.
It was founded on October 11, 1898, shortly after news that the Treaty of Paris would be signed, ending the Spanish-American War and transferring the Philippines from Spanish to American sovereignty. It presently bills itself as the fourth-largest newspaper in the Philippines in terms of circulation, beating the Manila Standard Today but still behind the Philippine Daily Inquirer, the Manila Bulletin and the Philippine Star.

Editor -            Fred de la Rosa

Headquarters: Port Area, Manila, Philippines

6.     Manila Standard Today

The Manila Standard Today (MST) is the fourth-largest broadsheet newspaper in the Philippines as of 2006. Initially established as the Manila Standard, it merged with another newspaper of record, Today, on March 6, 2005. It was the first newspaper merger in the Philippines.

The Manila Standard was founded on February 11, 1987 when the conglomerate owned by the family of Spanish-Filipino businessman Manuel Elizalde established the publishing company Standard Publications Inc. In 1989, the group of companies owned by the family of Andres Soriano III bought out the Elizalde group and renamed the company Kagitingan Publications.

Headquarters: Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines



7.     Malaya (newspaper)

Malaya is a broadsheet newspaper in the Philippines, headquartered at Port Area, Manila and owned by People's Independent Media Inc. The newspaper is known for being one of the publications that fought against the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos.
The newspaper's name was derived from the Filipino word that means "freedom". In 1981, Malaya was founded by Jose Burgos, Jr. as a daily written in Tagalog language. It eventually published its content into English in 1983 when President Ferdinand Marcos closed down "We Forum", a sister publication of Malaya. It continued to fight the administration of Marcos during its last years in power. During the events that lead to Marcos' ouster, Malaya published one million copies daily, a feat never been done before in the history of newspaper publishing in the Philippines. After the EDSA Revolution, Amado P. Macasaet, veteran journalist and then Business Editor of Malaya, became the new owner of Malaya.

Editor - Enrique P. Romualdez

Headquarters: Port Area, Manila, Philippines

 
8.     Abante

Abante is a daily Filipino tabloid publication in the Philippines. Its office is in Manila. Its editor-in-chief is Allen A. Macasaet. During the State of Emergency in 2006, operatives from the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group tried to raid Abante's office but withdrew when they saw that there are television crew in the area.[1] Currenty this is the one of the leading Tagalog-language tabloid paper along with Pilipino Star Ngayon and Bulgar.

Editor - Allen A. Macasaet

Headquarters: Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines

9.     Business Mirror

Business Mirror is a 2nd business newspaper in the Philippines published on a Daily basis (excluding weekends) after BusinessWorld. This is founded by T. Antonio Chua-Cabangon who also owned radio network Aliw Broadcasting Corporation in 2005 and it’s Publisher T. Anthony C. Cabangon. As of September 2011, it has a daily circulation of 82,600.

Editor - Lourdes M. Fernandez

Headquarters: Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines

10.                        BusinessWorld

BusinessWorld is a business newspaper in the Philippines. First published in 1967 as BusinessDay, it is Southeast Asia's first daily business newspaper.

Editor - Vergel O. Santos

Headquarters: Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines

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