The Philippine Star
| The Philippine Star
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| description | National daily newspaper |
| language | English |
| publishing company | Philippine Star Printing Co., Inc. ( Philippines ) |
| Headquarters | 202 Roberto S. Oca Street and Railroad Street, Port Area, Manila , Philippines |
| First edition | July 28, 1986 |
| founder |
Betty Go-Belmonte Maximo V. Soliven Art Borjal |
| Frequency of publication | Every day |
| Editor-in-chief | Ana Marie Pamintuan |
| Web link | philstar.com |
The Philippine Star is a Filipino daily newspaper and the flagship of the Star Group of Publications . It belongs to the company Philstar Daily Inc., which publishes other print media with Pilipino Star Ngyaon , Pang-Masa , The Freeman , Banat , as well as the magazines People Asia and Starweek . Together with the Philippine Daily Inquirer , it is the most popular newspaper in the Philippines.
history
Journalists Maximo Soliven , Betty Go-Belmonte and Art Borjal founded The Philippine Star on July 28, 1986, a few months after the EDSA revolution overthrew the dictator Ferdinand Marcos .
Soliven, Belmonte and Borjal had founded the Philippine Daily Inquirer a few months earlier on December 9, 1985, together with Eugenia Apostol , Louie Beltran and Florangel Braid . Financial questions and disputes over the direction of the newspaper led the three to publish their own newspaper.
The first issue had eight pages, no advertising or advertisements and an edition of "a few thousand copies" (German: "a few thousand copies").
Innovations
The August 4, 1995 edition of the Philippine Star was the first Filipino newspaper to feature a full color front page. Since 2001, all pages have been colored, which was the beginning of the slogan “The only paper you read from cover to cover” (German: The only newspaper that you read from beginning to end). In 2003, The Philippine Star became the first newspaper to partner with a fast food restaurant, the Jollibee Foods Corporation .
In 2013 the Read It! Live It! which enabled readers with a tablet or mobile phone to call up additional multimedia content by photographing a QR code on selected pages .
Known writers
Individual evidence
- ^ Company Profile. The Philippine Star, accessed August 6, 2015 .
- ↑ a b c Doreen Yu: The beginnings of The Philippine Star. The Philippine Star, July 28, 2011, accessed August 6, 2015 .
- ^ Don Jaucian: Litte Revolutions: 24 Years of the Philippine Star. The Philippine Star, July 28, 2010, accessed August 6, 2015 .
- ↑ A whole new way to read the news: Philippine Star breaks ground with augmented reality issue. The Philippine Star, April 29, 2013, accessed August 6, 2015 .
- ^ New Philippine Star mobile app now out. ABS-CBN News.com, accessed August 6, 2015 .