De Gelderlander

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de Gelderlander
Gelderlander Arnhem.JPG
description Dutch daily newspaper
First edition 1848
Frequency of publication daily / saturday
Sold edition 113,125 copies
(2019)
Range 0.349 million readers
( De Persgroep Nederland , 2019, Mon-Fri)
Editor-in-chief Peter Jansen
editor De Persgroep Nederland
Web link gelderlander.nl

De Gelderlander is a Dutch regional newspaper with an editorial office in Nijmegen . The newspaper appears Monday through Saturday in tabloid format. The newspaper is published by Wegener, which publishes Brabants Dagblad , BN / De Stem , Eindhovens Dagblad , Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant , de Stentor and De Twentsche Courant Tubantia . The paid circulation in the first quarter of 2008 was 149,455 copies. The editor-in-chief is Kees Pijnappels.

The newspaper has editorial offices in Arnhem , Boxmeer , Doetinchem , Ede , Elst , Nijmegen , Tiel , Winterswijk and Zevenaar .

history

Rise of the newspaper

In 1843 the lawyer Christiaan Verwayen founded De Batavier, a weekblad with state knowledge of letters, as an emancipation organ for Catholics in Nijmegen. The city was dominated by the Protestants there, although the majority was Catholic . From October 4th of that year it appeared twice a week on two pages. The paper did not do very well after Verwayen accused members of the city parliament of perjury in 1845 , he was arrested and the paper closed.

Verwayen's brother-in-law Simon Petrus Langendam announced his own newspaper in 1847 with the name De grondwetsgezinde Batavier: Geldersch Weekblad, over Staat-, Geschied- en Letterkunde , but this appeared only a year later in May 1848 as De Gelderlander, Staatkundig-, Nieuws- en Advertentieblad . In the first few years, the doctor Jan Berends, who had previously worked at De Batavier , almost single- handedly took care of the content, which initially had to be placed on a single page, and kept the paper on a strictly Catholic, anti-liberal line.

From 1852 onwards the newspaper appeared on Thursdays and Sundays. A year later, Langendam was imprisoned in Arnhem for 18 months, but the paper nevertheless exposed itself more clearly to matters of Catholic emancipation and gradually began to expand thematically. In 1856 the city and provincial coat of arms disappeared from the title.

De Gelderlander became a daily newspaper in 1874 . The significant increase in population of Nijmegen has ensured an increasing number of readers since 1880. In 1889 AJJM Langendam took over the editorial office due to the death of his father. From 1898 to 1905, both a morning and an evening edition were printed daily. On July 1, 1900, the newspaper's history as a family business ended. The newspaper was incorporated into the framework of a joint stock company "NV Maatschappij De Gelderlander", editor-in-chief JR van der Lans became general director, Langendam technical director. The newspaper had 19,800 subscribers that year.

De Gelderlander in the 20th century

In 1924 De Gelderlander received a local edition for Arnhem . Others for Apeldoorn and the Achterhoek followed. In the 1930s the newspaper had a circulation of 37,000 copies. With the new director GHJB Bodewes, the dual function of editor-in-chief and director ended in 1939.

During the German occupation in World War II , the newspaper received a pre-censor and now had to navigate its content. Conflicts arose over the takeover of advertisements from the Dutch National Socialists NSB and the appointment of a new editor-in-chief. In February 1942, the "Rijksbureau voor de Grafische Industrie" announced that after March 16 the newspaper could no longer be allocated any paper, whereupon the newspaper temporarily stopped publication on March 14.

Even during the war, considerations were made to reissue the newspaper in the post-war period as an overarching title of independent, strongly regionalized titles for the Nijmegen, Arnhem, Graafschap and Liemers region . On September 22nd, 1944, when Nijmegen had just been liberated, the newspaper appeared again. Editor-in-chief Uri Nooteboom was shot dead by a German sniper on April 12, 1945 during a report in Zutphen . In 1947, de Gelderlander received the local editions Arnhems Dagblad , De Oost-Gelderlander , De Veluwe- en Ijsselbode and De Noord-Ooster for the regions of Northeast Brabant and North Limburg .

In the 1950s, the newspaper began to expand again in terms of content, the newspaper again left its old Catholic defensive position a little and now also reported on Judaism and Protestantism. (Inter) national reporting has been strengthened with foreign correspondents and a parliamentary editorial office. De Nieuwe Krant was created in 1971 through the takeover of the Arnhemmer local part of Het Vrije Volk and its merger with Arnhems Dagblad .

In December 1990, De Gelderlander became the first newspaper in the Netherlands to create an ombudsman to deal with complaints from readers. In 1996 the newspaper went online. In 1998 it became part of the VNU group, which in September 1999 sold its newspapers BN / DeStem , Brabants Dagblad , Eindhovens Dagblad , de Gelderlander and De Limburger to Wegener.

De Gelderlander in the 21st century

At the end of 2001, the Arnhemse Courant , Gelders Dagblad and De Gelderlander merged under the title of the latter, the paid circulation then rose from 155,373 to 188,803 copies from the third quarter to the fourth quarter of that year, but fell to a pre-merger value in the following years.

On February 6, 2007, the broadsheet was switched to the more compact tabloid format.

See also

literature

  • Jan van de Plasse: Kroniek van de Nederlandse dagblad- en opiniepers , Otto Cramwinckel Uitgever, Amsterdam 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Het Oplage Instituut (Dutch / partly English)
  2. ↑ radio.nl: "Arnhemse Courant, Gelders Dagblad en De Gelderlander gaan samen", March 7, 2001 (Dutch), last accessed April 14, 2008