Algemeen Dagblad

The Algemeen Dagblad is a Dutch or AD nationwide daily newspaper and by the merger with seven regional newspapers on 1 september 2005 with an average circulation of 570,000 copies (weekdays 550,000, Saturday 650,000) the second largest paid newspaper of Netherlands. The newspaper is published in tabloid format. The main editorial office is based in Rotterdam. The editors counts since september 2005 about 550 journalists and correspondents at home and abroad.



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[hide] *1 call number and readership  ==Call number and readership[ Edit] == The Algemeen Dagblad newspaper since its creation profiles itself as a neutral without political or religious bond. According to the editorial Statute, the newspaper ' a popular, reliable, independent national morning sheet ' to be. Research has shown that subscribers can be found in all walks of life, but more than half of the readers has an above average income. Although it is widely available as national newspaper Algemeen Dagblad, the most read newspaper in the southwest of the Netherlands. A quarter of subscribers lives in the three major cities in the West of the country. [2] ==Editions[ Edit] == The AD has a rural version seven regional titles, some of which are further subdivided into local editions. These are:
 * 2 Editions
 * 3 History
 * 3.1 Reorganizations
 * 3.2 De Persgroep
 * 4 Tests
 * 5 Trivia
 * 6 external link

It is not possible to choose an Edition for subscribers. If one lives in area where a regional Edition in circulation is one that automatically gets sent home. The National Edition is sold separately anywhere. ==History[ Edit] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The newspaper was in 1946 as sister of the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant founded by w. Pluygers and j. speed up. Pluygers became the Publisher, the first editor-in-Chief Jan Sabari . The first issue appeared on april 29, 1946.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" len="168" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]
 * Amersfoortse Courant
 * The Enockobeng
 * Green Heart
 * Alphen aan den Rijn
 * Gouda
 * Woerden
 * Haagsche Courant
 * The Hague City
 * Delft
 * Westland
 * Zoetermeer
 * Rivierenland
 * Rotterdams Dagblad
 * Rotterdam City
 * Rotterdam Oost
 * Hoeksche Waard
 * Voorne Putten
 * Waterway
 * Utrechts Nieuwsblad
 * Utrecht City
 * Utrecht Oost
 * Utrecht Zuid

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1964 the newspaper was, which until then was published by the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant NV, acquired by the Dutch daily newspaper Union (NDU), created from the merger of the NRC with the Algemeen Handelsblad .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1979 merged the NDU with ElsevierPublishing House, that leg snubbed in 1995 to PCM Uitgevers, where Het Parool, Trouw and de Volkskrant were already issued. PCM acquired not only the fusion, but also theAlgemeen Dagbladnewspaper NRC Handelsblad. The new AD is placed in a joint venture in which the publishers PCM and Wegener participate.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">For a long time, after the Algemeen Dagblad De Telegraaf, the Netherlands's second newspaper. Starting from the end of the eighties lost the newspaper readers. That process was reinforced by the abrupt change of course from 1993 by the then editor-in-Chief Peter van Dijk, who gave the newspaper a completely new appearance and quality of the newspaper wanted to make a ' newspaper '. Many readers were not served.<sup class="noprint nopopups" len="311" style="line-height:1;"> [source?] The takeover of NDU by PCM frustrated Van Dijk family plans somewhat, because it is not in the interests of the company was that it would compete with Algemeen Dagblad de Volkskrant, who then was very successful.<sup class="noprint nopopups" len="311" style="line-height:1;"> [source? ] After a brief Oscar Garschagen, which the main editorship of title provided on the front page of ' Dutch ', was most popular quality newspaper ombudsman William Abas in a period of great unrest on the editors asked to be the new editor-in-Chief. Abbas restored the rest, but stuck to the appointment with the Board of Directors that he no longer than up to two years as editor-in-Chief wanted to stay on and retired after forty years of service journalism would go. Ammerlaans successor Jan Bonjer then pitched to the helm. De Volkskrant was the second newspaper Algemeen Dagblad Netherlands's strived beyond. Bonjer deleted the designation ' quality ' newspaper in 2004 and focused specifically on competition again with the associated press. This also led to many new denunciations of subscribers, many of whom had signed up after 1993.<sup class="noprint nopopups" len="311" style="line-height:1;">[source?]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Since 2004 the sports section as sports world inserted attachment on tabloid format is delivered. After the merger with the regional newspapers the entire tabloid newspaper printed at that smaller. The AD 's columnists include Sjaak Bral, Marjan Berk, Gerard Spong and Hugo Breast. The newspaper has regular features in the form of separate attachments as your right (now known as Money & law, consumer information), Diagnosis(medical information) and page Readers square, on which readers can lose their reactions. Many articles are illustrated with images.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">From 6 april 2008 to the end of August 2008 the newspaper AD Sport world Pro, a daily sports newspaper. This newspaper was in that period as subscription and available separately. ===Reorganizations<span class="mw-editsection" len="337" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the course of 2004 showed that Publishing House wanted to strengthen the Algemeen Dagblad PCM with regional editions, including a better link with the Rhine and Gouwe kopbladen and The Enockobeng. That would come as a tabloid at the AD . At the same time, Wegener had publishing house plans to in South Holland to merge a number of regional titles. When both publishers came to the conclusion that the fierce competition that would result are rather readers would cost than yield it was decided to cooperate. In december 2004 it was announced that would be investigated or the merger of the Algemeen Dagblad and seven regional newspapers (Rhine and Gouwe, The Enockobeng, Rotterdams Dagblad newspaper, Haagsche Courant, Utrechts nieuwsblad, Goudsche Courant and Amersfoortse Courant) was viable.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">There was not yet a new name spoken. That decision pushed the publishers long before them. Wegener felt it most for an entirely new name. PCM wilde (at the urging of the AD) the Algemeen Dagblad maintain title because this would be a strong brand name. From an AD by the Editorial Board of the enforced readers study found in 2005 that the readers attached to the very familiar names of the participating newspapers. The final result was that in each issue area the name of the existing regional newspaper maintained remained, with the prefix AD.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Because in one part of the range the newspapers Rhine and Gouwe, Gouda Courant and an edition of the Utrechts nieuwsblad overlapped each other, here was a new name figured out: AD Groene Hart. In addition there was an AD rivierenland Edition for the area where previously the Utrechts nieuwsblad appeared, as a successor of the Dagblad rivierenland. Outside areas of the regional newspapers remained the National Edition of the Algemeen Dagblad exist.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">It took until the end of May/early June 2005 before editorial boards and were consistent with all plans around, works councils, trade unions and NMA was reached. Then had to everything on the kick: new editorial departments had to be formed, there had to be a new layout had to come, printing process and distribution related to the transition to tabloid significantly altered only 22 editions. At the same time, the production of the old newspaper had to just go ahead.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On 1 september 2005, the new newspaper there. A day before, the website of the AD also got a new look. Immediately after the merger the new newspaper lost tens of thousands of readers. The paid circulation dropped since 1 september 2005 of 547.272 to 464.032 in the first quarter of 2007. In the first quarter of 2009 was the Edition further dropped to 404.461. Nowadays rises the circulation again. In the third quarter of 2010 amounted to 448.754.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" len="168" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [4] ===De Persgroep<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In the spring of 2009, the AD-as part of PCM-included in the press group, the company of the Belgian media entrepreneur Christian Van Thillo. This was followed by a reorganization which among other 116 journalists their jobs took. The number of redundancies was limited to four or five because of an arrangement offered. This could leave voluntarily in Exchange for journalists a stepping stone bonus, the size of the monthly salary multiplied by the number of active service years. This, more than 116 people signed in. The handful of journalists still arose because certain redundancies because of a specialty not could be placed elsewhere.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" len="168" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [5]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The reorganization also led to the ontslagnames of editor-in-Chief-Director Jan Bonjer and General Manager Bernard van der Heijden. Also, the full supervisory board. The six-Member Editorial Board of the AD was traced to a main editorial office with a single editor in Chief (Peter de Jonge ad interim) and a single editorial manager (Bart Verkade). Frits campaign was beginning July 2009 by Viki appointed General Director ad interim of AD News media. He was previously an editor at the Haagsche Courantamong others, ex-Deputy Managing Editor and for some years managing director of Het Parool, which earlier was taken over by the Press Group.

<p lang="en" len="416" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Led by Campaign, the young and Verkade, assisted by specialists of the press group Netherlandsnewspaper, the AD must be transformed into a national newspaper with an emphasis on regional reporting and sports news. ==Tests<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The AD has, over the years, several consumer-oriented tests in life called. For example, there was a AD-photo test, in which the quality of the picturewas tested after that were brought to different developers. On september 20, 2008 the magazine published a nationwide test of opticians. Eye measurement (undercover) were reviewed and the eyeglasses on manufacture. The AD-oliebollentest, AD-Herring test and the AD-hospital test are in addition annually recurring phenomena. In addition, there is also a yearly Fries test and a coffee test. ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * On may 4, 2009, the AD a wrong picture on the front page. This was not of the deceased perpetrator of the attack on the Royal family, but of a still living person with the same last name.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-6" len="168" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">