De Standaard
De Standaard (German Der Standard ) is a Dutch- language daily newspaper from Belgium . Alongside De Morgen and De Tijd , it is one of those Flemish newspapers that consider themselves to be quality newspapers. The newspaper is a member of the journalistic research network European Investigative Collaboration (EIC).
history
The weekly newspaper Ons Volk Ontwaakt (“Our people awake”), founded in 1911 and published by the young Marnix Gijsen , was regarded as the forerunner of De Standaard. De Standaard was first published in 1918. When Belgium was occupied by the German Wehrmacht in 1940 , the publisher stopped publishing and instead started a new newspaper, Het Algemeen Nieuws . After the war, the publisher was therefore accused of collaborating with the Germans. The publishing house NV De Standaard received a two-year publication ban. Therefore a new publisher was founded, De Gids NV , which published De Nieuwe Standaard in November 1944 .
When the publication ban was lifted in 1947, NV De Standaard demanded the title back and won the court. De Nieuwe Standaard was therefore renamed De Nieuwe Gids in April 1947 and De Standaard reappeared on May 1, 1947 . In June 1976 the publishing house went bankrupt, a few weeks later a new publishing company, VUM , was founded and has been publishing the newspaper ever since.
Alignment
From the start, De Standaard followed a decidedly Flemish course. The newspaper was a mouthpiece for Catholic Flanders for a long time, politically it leaned on the Christian Democrats . In the 1990s, the newspaper dropped the motto Everything for Flanders - Flanders for Christ . Since then it has been open to various directions. It has been published in tabloid format since March 8, 2004 and has various weekly supplements.
Edition
The circulation is around 90,000 copies and has increased again after a few years of decline:
- 1999: 98.169
- 2000: 98.235
- 2001: 95,867
- 2002: 93,500
- 2003: 94,890
- 2005: 97,226 (August)
- 2014: 100,786