Dagblad van het Noorden

The Dagblad van het Noorden is a Dutch regional newspaper with editorial headquarters in Groningen. The newspaper is published Monday to Saturday in broadsheet format. Publisher is also headquartered in Groningen " Hazewinkel Pers BV ", which in turn a wholly owned subsidiary of " NDC Holding BV " ( ' Noordelijke Dagblad Combinatie ') is. The paid circulation was 2008 134.303 (print ) and 15,281 ( e- paper ) copies in the first quarter. Editor in chief Pieter Sijpersma.

The paper is focused on the regions of Groningen and Drenthe. It emerged from the fusion of Nieuwsblad van het Noorden, the Drentse Courant and the Groninger Dagblad in April 2002.

In March 2004, the newspaper expanded its delivery also to the German border area in order to achieve so that live in Germany Dutchman can.

Role during the German occupation

The ' Nieuwsblad van het Noorden ' came under criticism when the book ' Het Schandaal ' ( The scandal ) by Johan van Gelder in 2000 was published in the Netherlands and shone through the ratio of the newspaper to the German occupiers during the Second World War. The revelations in the book were in stark contrast to the representations of the two owners, the brothers Nico and Jan Abraham Hazewinkel, who always rejected the suspicion of collaborating with the Nazis by themselves.

During the German occupation had the ' Dagblad ', just like many other Dutch newspapers, anti-Semitic and pro- German articles are published. When they refused in 1944 a chief editor of the NSB ( Nationaal - Socialistische Beweging ) - because of their Nazi orientation at the time of the German occupation times, the only party permitted - to accept a publication ban was issued. On the printing presses, the German newspaper was published in the Netherlands until the end of the occupation. On January 26, 1946, the newspaper was published for the first time after the war in an edition of 35,000 copies.