Friesch Dagblad
The Friesch Dagblad is a Dutch regional newspaper with editorial headquarters in Leeuwarden. Editor of the newspaper is the Friesch Dagblad Holding, which is also based in Leeuwarden. The newspaper is published six days a week in broadsheet format, including Monday to Friday and Saturday evening edition as a morning edition. The paid circulation was 2008 14.577 copies in the first quarter.
The Friesch Dagblad is the only regional newspaper of the Netherlands with Christian- Protestant orientation. Historically, an affinity with the party ARP, later, supported the formation of the interdenominational CDA, where the ARP came up. Today, the newspaper referred to as non-partisan and not bound to any particular church. Editor in Chief is currently Lutzen Kooistra.
History
Precursor of Friesch Dagblad was the Provinciale Friese Courant, an organ of the ARP, which was published by the " Provinciale Persvereniging voor Friesland " and two days a week appeared. After with De Standaard already since 1872 there has been a nationwide body of ARP, the party leader Abraham Kuyper wanted to regional newspapers as a supplement. So De Graafschapper 1877, De Zeeuw in 1886 and in the same year de Nieuwe Provinciale Groninger Courant were added. The " Provinciale Persvereniging voor Friesland " followed much later in 1899, then in January 1900 brought out the first edition of the Courant Provinciale Friese. The sheet could win first 2,000 subscribers in itself, this number fell but then by more than half. Instead of adapting the newspaper without replacement, the reverse path was gone and with financial help from outside the successor Friesch Dagblad founded, which appeared from 1903 to daily ( excluding weekends).
During the German occupation in the Second World War, the newspaper ceased their appearance, because they did not want to submit to the censorship imposed. After the war, she appeared again and has the beginning in the 60's detachment of other Christian newspapers not mitvollzogen of their background. While national newspapers as de Volkskrant and Trouw this background completely renounced ( de Volkskrant ) or, finally, Editors began, which no church at all longer belonged ( Trouw ) and that this has prevailed even in local newspapers so that Friesch Dagblad remained a Christian newspaper.
2002 with Het leven proper administration of a national weekly newspaper launched which is supervised by the same editors as her mother newspaper. The slow but steady since the millennium edition of loss ( in the 4th quarter of 1999, the paid circulation even 19,243 ), however, led to financial losses and ultimately lead to layoffs.
Others
- On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of the newspaper planted on 29 November 2003 300 reader a new consisting of 3,000 trees forest.