Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau

The Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau (ANP ) is a Dutch news agency. The company is based in Rijswijk.

History

In December 1934, the Dutch newspaper association Nederlandse Dagbladpers (NDP, Dutch newspaper press) founded the Stichting Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau ( Foundation General Dutch Press Agency ) as a carrier of the ANP. The two existing news agencies Vaz Dias and Nederlandsch Correspondentie Bureau went into the new agency. On July 1, 1935 ANP began with his work and took over on January 1, 1936, the Nederlandsch Telegraaf Agentschap.

Within a short time he managed ANP to monopolize the international and national reporting. This had a substantive standardization of newspapers sequence whose editors are now focused on the most interesting news for their readers. At that time still existed in the Netherlands the system of pillarisation, ie there was a clear separation of reformed, catholic, socialist or liberal -oriented groups who had little personal contact with each other and their own respective newspapers. After the capitulation of the Netherlands in World War II ANP came immediately into the hands of the German occupiers, the Jewish employees were laid off.

In May 2001, the Foundation was in a B. V. (similar to a limited liability company ) converted.

ANP today

ANP is the largest news agency in the Netherlands and employs 250 people, of which about 160 journalists. Editorial offices are located in Amsterdam, Brussels, The Hague, Eindhoven and Rotterdam.

ANP delivers newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, websites and businesses with photos and reports. In addition, ANP represents in the Netherlands news agencies of other countries, these are dpa ( Germany ), AFP (France), EFE (Spain) and Belga (Belgium ).

Curiosities

During the German occupation in World War II ANP was called due to the former DC circuit popularly known as " Adolf's latest parrot ".

Swell

• Piet Hagen: journalists in Nederland. Een Persgeschiedenis in portretten. Uitgeverij De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam and Antwerp 2002, ISBN 90-295-2222-4. ( Dutch)
• Jan van de Plasse: Kroniek van de Nederlandse dagblad -en opiniepers / samengesteld door 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 )
• Site of ANP