Philippine Star

The Philippine Star is a major English-language daily newspaper in the Philippines, based in Metro Manila. It provides national news, politics, business, and entertainment coverage for a broad readership and operates print and digital editions. It is among the country's leading English-language newspapers.

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Philippine Star at a glance

Country: Philippines
Region: Southeast Asia · Asia
Kind of outlet: Daily newspaper
Editorial leaning: Centrist
Website: philstar.com ↗
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How Crosswire groups Philippine Star

Crosswire groups Philippine Star as Centrist for comparisons within the Philippines' directory. Center includes both centrist outlets and outlets for which the directory has no confident classification. It is not evidence that this outlet is neutral or more accurate. In the Philippines, The Manila Times is listed as Right-leaning — so you can open Philippine Star beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.

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This is an approximate orientation, not a definitive judgement — and not a rating of quality or accuracy. Read how Crosswire classifies editorial leanings. This profile does not include an individual assessment citation. Page updated 2026-09-28; this is a content-change date, not a fresh fact-check of the outlet. Think this label is wrong? Suggest a correction.

Where Philippine Star sits in the Philippines' press

Philippine Star is one of 6 outlets tracked in the Philippines, and one of 4 daily newspapers among them — the others being Philippine Daily Inquirer, Manila Bulletin and The Manila Times. 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 Philippine Star outside the Philippines, starting with Southeast Asia, are The Star (Malaysia), Bangkok Post (Thailand), The Straits Times (Singapore) and Tuổi Trẻ (Vietnam). Opening one of them beside Philippine Star is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.