Outlet track record
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Philippine center-left / establishment
The Inquirer is the Philippines' largest broadsheet, privately owned by the Rufino-Prieto family with a minority stake tied to telecom tycoon Manuel Pangilinan's media holdings. It leans toward liberal, reformist, pro-accountability journalism domestically, and its coverage of the second Trump administration has been mixed — supportive of the U.S.-Philippine security alliance but skeptical of Trump's reliability on tariffs and defense commitments.
Owned byMajority owned by the Rufino-Prieto family through Pinnacle Printers Corporation (parent of Inquirer Holdings Inc., formerly Inquirer Group of Companies); about a quarter of Inquirer Holdings is held by Excel Pacific Holding Corp., part of Manuel V. Pangilinan's MediaQuest Holdings network.
LeaningPhilippine center-left / establishment
On the administrationmixed
1average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun