The Manila Times
The Manila Times, founded in 1898, is the Philippines' oldest continuously published English-language daily. Owned by businessman Dante 'Klink' Ang and his family, it covers national politics, business, and regional affairs; media-bias assessments such as Media Bias/Fact Check classify it as right-of-center, and it was broadly supportive of the Duterte administration.
The Manila Times at a glance
- Country
- Philippines
- Region
- Southeast Asia · Asia
- Kind of outlet
- Daily newspaper
- Editorial leaning
- Right-leaning
- Website
- manilatimes.net ↗
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How Crosswire groups The Manila Times
Crosswire groups The Manila Times as Right-leaning for comparisons within the Philippines' directory. This is an approximate Crosswire label, not a verified rating of its individual articles or a claim that every journalist shares one position. In the Philippines, Philippine Daily Inquirer and Philippine Star are listed as Centrist — so you can open The Manila Times beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where The Manila Times sits in the Philippines' press
The Manila Times is one of 6 outlets tracked in the Philippines, and one of 4 daily newspapers among them — the others being Philippine Daily Inquirer, Philippine Star and Manila Bulletin. By outlets tracked, the Philippines ranks 13th of the 33 countries on Crosswire's Asia hub, which lists 169 outlets in all.
Across Asia, Crosswire tracks 67 of the 396 daily newspapers in the directory. The nearest counterparts to The Manila Times outside the Philippines, starting with Southeast Asia, are Eleven Media Group (Myanmar), The Phnom Penh Post (Cambodia), Vientiane Times (Laos) and The Bruneian (Brunei). Opening one of them beside The Manila Times is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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