Manila Standard-Today

Manila Standard

Front page dated July 25, 2016
Type	Newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner(s)	Philippine Manila Standard Publishing, Inc.
Founder(s)	Rod Reyes
Publisher	Rolando G. Estabillo
President	Benjamin Philip G. Romualdez
Founded	1987 (Manila Standard) 1999 (Today) 2005 (Manila Standard Today, merged) 2015 (The Standard) 2016 (Manila Standard) (2nd era)
Political alignment	Right-wing, Conservatism
Language	English
Headquarters	6/F, Universal RE Building, 106 Paseo de Roxas Avenue cor. Perea Street, Legaspi Village, Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines
Sister newspapers	People's Journal
Website	manilastandard.net

Manila Standard is a broadsheet newspaper in the Philippines owned as of 2017^[update] by the Romualdez family. The Romualdezes, through former congressman Martin Romualdez, also own Journal Publications, Inc., the owner of tabloid papers People's Journal and People's Tonight.

Initially established as the Manila Standard in 1987, it merged with another newspaper of record, Today, on March 6, 2005, and became the Manila Standard Today (MST). In 2015, the newspaper renamed itself as The Standard (temporarily The New Standard), reverting to its original name in 2016.

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 on February 11, 1987. The offices were then located at the bustling Ayala Avenue in the Makati CBD.

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.

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