# The Standard (Gambia)

> The Standard (Gambia) is a news source in the TOLD catalogue, based in Gambia. TOLD classifies its editorial position as **Balanced**.

- **Domain:** standard.gm
- **Website:** https://standard.gm
- **Country:** Gambia
- **Region:** Africa
- **Language:** English
- **Editorial position on TOLD:** Balanced
- **Founded:** 2010

## About

The Standard reaches Banjul each day as an independent daily built by veterans of the paper Yahya Jammeh once tolerated, then broke. It works the accountability beat of post-dictatorship Gambia: audit queries, third-term manoeuvres, an electoral commission's independence tested in real time. Its founder once served that dictatorship as information minister before defecting, so the paper carries in its own lineage the tension between press and power it now reports.

## Profile

- **Ownership:** Published by XL Standard Co. Ltd; founded by veteran journalist Sheriff Bojang Sr. Privately owned and editorially independent; not party-owned.
- **Funding:** Advertising and copy sales
- **Focus areas:** National politics, courts, investigations, public accountability, opinion, culture


## What the position means

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and focus. It describes a pattern; it is not a rating of quality and not a
ranking. Nothing in TOLD sorts, hides or promotes a source by its position.
State-aligned and partisan outlets are in the catalogue on purpose, labelled.

## Assessment note

Latest assessment: 2026-07-28. Generated with TOLD Source Prompt Brief v1.2.7. TOLD summarizes framing patterns and third-party classifications; it does not assess factual accuracy, intent, or legitimacy. External classifications: 4 (4 themes).

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