Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant
The Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant ( New Rotterdam indicator ) was a national Dutch newspaper with editorial headquarters in Rotterdam.
History
On January 1, 1844, the first edition of the NRC appeared. He was commercial, Nieuws en Advertentieblad founded by Henricus Nijgh as the successor of since August 1843 appearing Rotterdamsch State Kundig, published weekly. Initially, the NRC published three times a week, on 23 September 1844, he became a daily newspaper. By 1883, he was also the only daily newspaper that was delivered in the morning. Another pioneer took the NRC in 1877, when he became the first newspaper in the Netherlands appeared from that year with both a morning and an evening edition, and also took in 1878 as the first newspaper in the Netherlands a rotary press in use.
Meanwhile, the newspaper had become a showpiece sheet that was politically close to the Liberals in 1882 and with a circulation of 9,800 copies was the second largest newspaper in the Netherlands. While the NRC was unable to maintain this status in the long run and passing by a number of other newspapers to him, he was still able to increase its circulation to around 35,000 copies until 1939. 1929 saw an advertising boycott of Rotterdam theater operators sensation, which had its origin in bad movie reviews and was maintained for a year. Another sensational event was the release in 1936 of the editor Dr. M. van Blankenstein, had displeased the port of Rotterdam entrepreneurs, especially his anti- German articles. One of two high school teachers led protest cost the NRC subsequently over 300 subscribers.
During the Second World War, the NRC came under the control of the German occupying forces. Since he was also released after 1942, so that he fell under a temporary publication ban as a collaboration newspaper. For this reason, the newspaper changed its name to National Rotterdamsche Courant, until she could take their old name back in 1947. The NRC could still connect to the old reputation and was awarded in 1951 as the first Dutch newspaper the Medal "For distinguished service in journalism" by the Faculty of Journalism at the University of Missouri- Columbia.
Although the NRC had in 1966 reached a circulation of over 58,000 copies, all national daily newspapers were pulled past him, with the exception of the Communist Party newspaper De Waarheid now. In addition, the increasing competition worked through television and radio unfavorable to the display market from, further were also increased wages, printing and paper costs. Since 1964, the NRC worked with the Amsterdam Algemeen Handelsblad also liberal, despite some resistance from both editors finally looked at the two newspapers is no future for a more self-reliance. In 1970, she merged finally to NRC Handelsblad, which despite initial circulation losses finally took a steep rise and mid-1990s, the requirements of both predecessor surpassed taken together far.