''The Standard'' () was an

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published in

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between 1861 and 1959 which claimed to be the first

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daily in the Southern Hemisphere. It was initially published weekly in 1861 as "The Weekly Standard" and in December 1862 became the daily "The Standard and River Plate News". In 1939, the entrepreneur Alfredo Dougall (owner of Radio Excelsior), bought ''The Standard'' and in 1943 the name was changed to "The Standard: (El Estandarte)". In 1955 it reverted to weekly publication until it finally closed in 1959.

History

Edward Mulhall, born in

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in 1832, moved to

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initially to breed sheep in Ranchos and Zárate. In 1861, he sold up and joined his brother Michael to found an English-language newspaper for the British community in Argentina. Los Mulhall, vocación de periodistas
on AccionTV (archived) 70px, The first football match played in Argentina, as covered by ''The Standard'', June 1867 ''The Standard'' claimed to be the first English-language daily newspaper in the southern hemisphere.Burton, Captain Sir Richard, Letters From the Battle-Fields of Paraguay, (Tinsley Brothers, London 1870), p.182. It became the oldest and most respected English newspaper in South America. "'The Standard of Buenos Aires, long a principal source of Argentine business news, regularly shipped 20,000 copies of its monthly supplement to British investors".Rock, David. ''The British in Argentina'',. Springer International Publishing. Kindle Edition. ''The Standard'' covered the first football match in Argentina, that took place on 20 June 1867 at the

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. The newspaper subsequently covered other football matches, becoming a pioneer in sports coverage in Argentina.''Historia del Fútbol Amateur en la Argentina'', by Jorge Iwanczuk. Published by Autores Editores (1992) - After the death of Edward Mulhall in 1899 it was managed by his son, another Edward who founded another notable newspaper, ''La Argentina''. The Max von Buch Library had archived editions of the newspaper, bound in 306 volumes, donated in 1999 by the children of Dougall. A significant source on the history of Argentina, some numbers have been scanned and placed online (but without electronic searchability) by the

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