Leidsch Dagblad

The Leidsch Dagblad is a Dutch regional newspaper with editorial headquarters in Leiden. The newspaper is published Monday to Saturday in broadsheet format. Editor of the newspaper 's HDC Media, which appear with De Gooi -en Eemlander, Haarlem Dagblad, IJmuider Courant and Noordhollands Dagblad other regional newspapers. The paid circulation was 2008 31.439 copies in the first quarter. The editors are Geert ten Dam and Jan Geert Majoor.

History

It was founded Leidsch Dagblad in 1860 by Albert Willem Sijthoff, one of the most important publishers in the Netherlands of the nineteenth century, as a rival to Leidsche Courant. After the first ten years had been filed yet much of the right concept, the sheet could produce 1880 3.688 subscribers. 1878, Sijthoff addition, the two newspapers Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad and Nieuws van den Dag, eventually handing over the management of the 1886 Leidsch Dagblad to his son Gerard Henri.

In 1943, during the German occupation in World War II, the Leidsch Dagblad did not appear until the end of the war, as the suggestion of the occupiers to use an editor in chief from the ranks of the NSB, was not accepted by the newspaper. During this time the besatzertreue Dagblad voor suffering en Omstreken took her place.

1980 Leidsch Dagblad was part of the publishing house " Damiate " who published the newspapers De Typhoon, Haarlem Dagblad, IJmuider Courant, Courant and De Nieuwe Noordhollandse North Amsterdam. On January 1, 1992 it merged " Damiate " again with the publisher " VND ", editor of the Noord Hollands Dagblad, the " Hollandse Dagbladcombinatie " (HDC ). A year later the " Hollandse Dagbladcombinatie " was adopted by the Telegraaf Media Groep.

2004 Leidsch Dagblad and its sister newspaper of Haarlem Dagblad of an evening in a morning newspaper was converted.