Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant

The Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant (PZC) is a Dutch regional newspaper with an editorial office in Goes . The publisher is “Wegener”, which includes BN / De Stem , Brabants Dagblad , Eindhovens Dagblad , De Gelderlander , De Stentor and De Twentsche Courant Tubantia .

The PZC appears Monday through Saturday in tabloid format . The paid circulation in the first quarter of 2008 was 52,090 copies. Editor-in-chief is Peter Jansen (2007).

The newspaper has four local editions for the regions Bevelanden / Tholen, Schouwen-Duiveland, Walcheren and Zeeuws-Vlaanderen.

history

The oldest forerunner of the newspaper is the Middelburgsche Courant , which appeared for the first time on May 3, 1758. During the time of the French occupation it was named Gazette de Middelbourg , Journal du département des bouches de l'Escaut and Feuille hebdomadaire de Middelbourg from 1811 to 1814 , but then took on its old name again. On July 1, 1869, the Middelburgsche Courant first appeared as a daily newspaper. In 1933 the Goesche Courant was taken over. In 1939 the newspaper , which had been called Provinciale Zeeuwsche Middelburgsche Courant since 1930, merged with the Vlissingse Courant, founded in 1869 . Both continued to run under this name for the time being. In May 1940, during the German invasion at the time of World War II , the editorial buildings were devastated. The Vlissinger edition appeared on May 14, 1940, the Middelburgser edition on May 30 for the last time. On May 31st, both newspapers merged under the new name Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant .

After the war, the newspaper was temporarily integrated as an edition of Vrije Zeeuw . In 1997 the Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant became part of the regional newspaper publisher "Wegener". In 1998 the Zierikzeesche Nieuwsbode was taken over . On January 1, 2000, a millennium edition appeared, 160,000 copies were distributed free of charge in the Zeeland region. The Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant has been published in tabloid format since February 6, 2007 .

Known employees

Henriëtte van der Meij became the first full-time journalist in the Netherlands in 1885 at the previous newspaper, Middelburgsche Courant .

See also

• List of Dutch newspapers

swell

• 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 )
• Koninklijke Bibliotheek - National Library of the Netherlands (Dutch)
• Official history of the newspaper (Dutch)

literature

• Constanze Hess: Determinants in reader marketing of regional daily newspapers in Germany and the Netherlands / door Constanze Hess . Thesis, University of Amsterdam, ibid 2003. (German / Dutch; Dissertation Univ. Amsterdam 2003)

Web links

• PZC online presence (Dutch)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Het Oplage Instituut (Dutch / partly English)