De Gooi- en Eemlander
De Gooien Eemlander is a Dutch regional newspaper with an editorial office in Hilversum . It appears Monday through Saturday in broadsheet format . The newspaper is published by HDC Media, where other regional newspapers appear with Haarlems Dagblad , IJmuider Courant , Leidsch Dagblad and Noordhollands Dagblad . The paid circulation in the first quarter of 2008 was 26,814 copies. The editors-in-chief are Geert ten Dam and Jan Geert Majoor.
history
Foundation and advancement
In November 1871 the weekly Gooisch Nieuwsblad appeared for the first time under the editorship of Johan Geradts . The publication area was soon expanded to include the communities of Baarn , Blaricum , Bussum , Eemnes , Laren , Naarden and Soest , and the newspaper was given its current name at the same time.
As the newspaper itself admits, the design was rather simple in the beginning. Comments, opinion pages or background reports were out of the question, the dignitaries unassailable, the layout without headings and illustrations.
After the print shop burned down completely in December 1900, the elderly Geradts turned to the local Klene brothers, who also owned a print shop, and a few months later gave them all of his newspaper. From 1901 it appeared twice a week, in 1923 it became a daily newspaper. At the same time a circulation of 8,500 had been reached, in 1940 De Gooien Eemlander had 19,000 subscribers.
German occupation and the post-war period
With the German occupation in World War II , a complicated and long chapter began that would last ten years. Publisher Klene (the newspaper was owned by this family for four generations) wanted u. a. Avoid hiring the workforce into poverty and using the printing presses for De Zwarte Soldaat , an organ of the “Weerbaarheidsafdeling”, which in turn was part of the Dutch National Socialists NSB . The German occupation forced the newspaper to appoint the new editor-in-chief Graumans from the ranks of the NSB, who turned out to be relatively moderate. In the period that followed, the editors tried as best they could to resist by shortening forced headings and reducing photos beyond recognition. On August 1, 1944, however, the editorial team received a much more fanatical successor in Hermanus Goedhart.
After the war, all newspapers that were still published in the years after 1942 were banned from publishing, so that De Gooien Eemlander was also affected. The region's underground press united under the title Gooische Klanken . This new newspaper owed its publication in the first few weeks largely to the help of the technical staff of the De Gooien Eemlander . The editorial staff occupied the offices of De Gooen Eemlander and saw itself as a transitional newspaper until the day when De Gooen Eemlander would be cleared of the contaminated sites. Since this took longer than expected, Gooische Klanken appointed editors from the Gooien Eemlander , but the Gooische Klanken directorate had to leave the editorial offices after a complaint from the De Gooien Eemlander . On March 29, 1946, the first post-war edition of the Gooien Eemlander appeared , which resulted in the situation that two (meanwhile warring) editorial offices were in the same building and had the same printing house for their newspapers. On October 28, 1946, the Gooische Klanken editorial team finally moved. The De Gooien Eemlander won the fight, the Gooische Klanken was discontinued on April 25, 1949, while De Gooien Eemlander was able to record steady increases in circulation. At times, however, it had to change its name to Het Gooien Ommeland , as it had received instructions to this effect in April 1948 due to its occupation past.
Renewed rise and decline in meaning
The importance of the newspaper continued to grow, with a record circulation of almost 60,000 copies in 1980. During his wedding, four other newspapers, Dagblad van Almere (since 1978), Goois Weekblad , Groene Weekblad and de Kabelkrant , were published by the then publishing company "Dagblad De Gooien Eemlander BV" , none of which were due to savings, mergers, reorganizations, etc. exist more. In 1996 De Gooen Eemlander was bought by De Telegraaf Holding and incorporated into the subsidiary "Hollandse Dagblad Combinatie" (HDC). Even if the high phase was a long time ago, De Gooien Eemlander has clearly had to give up again since the turn of the millennium, in the 4th quarter of 1999 it still had a paid edition of 40,737 copies.
Known employees
Gabriël Smit was editor of the newspaper from 1933 to 1939.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Het Oplage Instituut ( Dutch / partly English)
- ↑ Own history presentation (Dutch) ( Memento of the original from June 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , last accessed December 27, 2008
further reading
- Guus Pikkemaat: Dagblad De Gooi- en Eemlander: tijdens de oorlogsdagen, de bezettingstijd en de eerste jaren na de bevrijding (1940–1950) , Dagblad De Gooi- en Eemlander, Hilversum 1991