The Philippine Star
Front page from July 28, 2014
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet and News website |
| Owner(s) | PhilStar Daily, Inc. MediaQuest Holdings (51%) Belmonte Family (21%) Private stock (28%) |
| Founder(s) |
Betty Go-Belmonte Maximo V. Soliven Art Borjal |
| Publisher | Philippine Star Printing Co., Inc. |
| President | Miguel G. Belmonte |
| Editor-in-chief | Ana Marie Pamintuan |
| Founded | July 28, 1986 |
| Political alignment | Independent |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | 202 Roberto S. Oca St. cor Railroad St. Port Area, Manila, Philippines |
| City | Manila |
| Country | Philippines |
| Circulation | Mon–Sat: 262,285 (2012) Sunday: 286,408 (2012) |
| Sister newspapers |
BusinessWorld Pilipino Star Ngayon Pang-Masa The Freeman Banat |
| OCLC number | 854909029 |
| Website | Digital Edition |
The Philippine Star (self-styled The Philippine STAR) is a print and digital newspaper in the Philippines and the flagship brand of the PhilStar Media Group. First published on 28 July 1986 by veteran journalists Betty Go-Belmonte, Max Soliven and Art Borjal, it is one of several Philippine newspapers founded after the 1986 People Power Revolution.
The newspaper is owned and published by Philstar Daily Inc., which also publishes the monthly magazine People Asia and the Sunday magazines Starweek, Gist and Let's Eat. As part of the PhilStar Media Group, its sister publications include business newspaper BusinessWorld; Cebu-based, English-language broadsheet The Freeman; Filipino-language tabloids Pilipino Star Ngayon and Pang-Masa; and Cebuano-language tabloid Banat. In March 2014, the newspaper was acquired by MediaQuest Holdings, Inc., a media conglomerate owned and controlled by PLDT chairman Manuel V. Pangilinan, after the company purchased a majority stake in Philstar Daily, Inc.
The Philippine Star is among the Philippines' most widely circulated newspapers, with an average circulation of 266,000 copies daily, according to the Philippine Yearbook 2013.
The Philippine Star was first published seven months after the 1986 People Power Revolution that toppled strongman Ferdinand Marcos and propelled Corazon Aquino to the Philippine presidency. Before its establishment, founders Betty Go-Belmonte, Max Soliven and Art Borjal were veteran journalists involved in the "Mosquito Press", a collective name for the different newspapers critical of the Marcos administration that were published after the Martial Law era from 1972 to 1981. At that time, Belmonte was the publisher of a small, monthly magazine called The Star, a predecessor of the The Philippine Star.
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