Friesch Dagblad
The Friesch Dagblad is a Dutch regional newspaper with an editorial office in Leeuwarden . The newspaper is published by Friesch Dagblad Holding , which is also based in Leeuwarden. The newspaper appears six days a week in broadsheet format , Monday to Friday as an evening edition and Saturday as a morning edition. The paid circulation in the first quarter of 2008 was 14,577 copies.
The Friesch Dagblad is the only regional newspaper in the Netherlands with a Christian-Protestant orientation. Historically there was a proximity to the ARP party , later the formation of the interdenominational CDA was supported , in which the ARP was absorbed. Today the newspaper describes itself as bipartisan and not tied to a particular church. Lútzen Kooistra is currently the editor-in-chief.
history
The forerunner of the Friesch Dagblad was the Provinciale Friesche Courant , an organ of the ARP, which was published by its "Provinciale Persvereniging voor Friesland" and appeared two days a week. After De Standaard had been a supraregional organ of the ARP since 1872, the party leader Abraham Kuyper wanted regional newspapers as a supplement. Thus came De Graafschapper 1877, De Zeeuw 1886 and in the same year de Nieuwe Provinciale Groninger Courant added. The "Provinciale Persvereniging voor Friesland" followed much later in 1899, which then brought out the first edition of the Provinciale Friesche Courant in January 1900 . The paper initially won 2,000 subscribers, but this number then fell by more than half. Instead of discontinuing the newspaper without replacement, it went the other way round and founded the successor Friesch Dagblad with financial help from outside the company, which from 1903 appeared daily (except on weekends).
During the German occupation in World War II , the newspaper stopped its publication because it did not want to submit to the introduced censorship. It appeared again after the war and did not take part in the detachment of other Christian newspapers from their background, which began in the 1960s. While national newspapers such as de Volkskrant and Trouw completely renounced this background (de Volkskrant) or finally appointed editors-in-chief who no longer belonged to any church (Trouw) and this also caught on with regional newspapers, the Friesch Dagblad remained a Christian newspaper.
In 2002, Het goede leven, a national weekly newspaper, was launched, which is managed by the same editorial team as its mother newspaper. The slow but continuous loss of circulation since the turn of the millennium (in the 4th quarter of 1999 the paid circulation was still 19,243) led to financial losses and ultimately to layoffs.
Others
- On the occasion of the centenary of the newspaper, 300 readers planted a new forest consisting of 3,000 trees on November 29, 2003.
Additional information
See also
- The list of Dutch newspapers shows the position of Friesch Dagblad compared to the other newspapers in the country.
literature
- Klaas de Jong Ozn: Zij zullen het niet lift. De Geschiedenis van het Friesch Dagblad. Deel I 1903-1935 , Kok, Kampen 2003
- Jan van de Plasse: Kroniek van de Nederlandse dagblad- en opiniepers / seed gesteld by Jan van de Plasse. Red. Wim Verbei , Otto Cramwinckel Uitgever, Amsterdam 2005, ISBN 90-75727-77-1 . (Dutch; earlier edition: Jan van de Plasse, Kroniek van de Nederlandse dagbladpers , Cramwinckel, Amsterdam 1999, ISBN 90-75727-25-9 )
Web links
- Newspaper website (Dutch)
- Official history of the newspaper (Dutch)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Het Oplage Instituut ( Dutch / partly English)
- ↑ radio.nl : "Ontslag elf mensen bij Friesch Dagblad" (from February 15, 2005, Dutch)