DAG (newspaper)
DAG was a Dutch daily newspaper. It was a free newspaper that was distributed in important train stations (nationwide), underground stations (mainly Amsterdam and Rotterdam ), colleges, universities and all branches of the supermarket chain "Albert Heijn".
The newspaper was published Monday to Friday in tabloid format. The editorial office was in Amsterdam. The newspaper was published by Dag Media, a joint venture of PCM Uitgevers , in which AD (in a joint venture with Wegener), NRC Handelsblad , de Volkskrant and Trouw, all the major national quality newspapers in the Netherlands, and the telecommunications company KPN . The editor-in-chief was Bob Witman, who was previously deputy editor-in-chief of de Volkskrant . The initial circulation was 300,000 copies, the widespread circulation in the first quarter of 2008 was 380,269 copies.
history
Since the turn of the millennium, the circulation figures of traditional newspapers have been falling in the Netherlands, on the one hand due to competition from free newspapers, of which the offshoot of the Swedish free newspaper metro , launched in June 1999, was the pioneer together with Sp! Ts , and on the other hand due to new media such as the Internet.
PCM Uitgevers also wanted to enter the free newspaper market, but was looking for a joint venture. The investor Marcel Boekhoorn was originally intended as a partner, but ultimately PCM Uitgevers decided on KPN. Boekhoorn in turn started its own free newspaper called De Pers and published it a few months before the appearance of DAG . The first edition of DAG appeared on May 8, 2007 . The newspaper recently employed around 40 editors, four of whom were responsible for the online edition. The latter had integrated RSS - web feeds and videos as integral parts. The print edition could be viewed in full in the original layout on the newspaper's homepage, and there was also an edition for mobile devices. On September 30, 2008, the printed version of DAG was discontinued. A year later, in 2009, the online editorial office of the paper was also closed.
See also
- The list of Dutch newspapers shows DAG's position compared to the other newspapers in the country
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Volkskrant-chef leidt Dag . ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. mediafacts.nl, April 25, 2007 (Dutch)
- ↑ Free crane Dag begins on May 8th . ( Memento of the original from June 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. nrc.nl, April 26, 2007 (Dutch)
- ↑ Het Oplage Instituut
