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''De Zaanlander'' was a Dutch regional newspaper published in

Zaandam Zaandam () is a city in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Holland, Netherlands. It is the main city of the municipality of Zaanstad, and received City rights in the Netherlands, city rights in 1811. It is located on the river Za ...

founded in 1885. With a brief interruption after

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, when the paper was temporarily banned for having collaborated with the German occupier, it was published until 1992, when it merged with the competing local paper, ''

De Typhoon ''De Typhoon: Dagblad voor de Zaanstreek'' was a Dutch regional newspaper published in Zaandam. It was founded in 1944 (during World War II) as an anti-German resistance paper, and continued after the war as a local newspaper, absorbing some small ...

'', to become ''Dagblad Zaanstreek'', which in turn merged with other regional papers to form the ''

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'', now the only regional newspaper for

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History

The paper was first published on 13 November 1885 as a periodical advertising paper in

Wormerveer Wormerveer is a town in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Zaanstad, and lies about 13 km northwest of Amsterdam. Wormerveer developed in the 15th century on the west bank of the Zaan river. It started t ...

. In 1926 it absorbed the ''Zaanlandsch nieuws- en advertentieblad'', a weekly for news and advertising. From 16 February 1938 it was published as a daily,Plasse 33. and at the time was said to have some 18,000 readers. During World War II, ''De Zaanlander'' had collaborated with the German occupation, and on 4 May 1942 was merged with four other local papers from the region to form ''Dagblad voor Noord-Holland'', under German editorial control. After liberation it was banned from publishing, until 23 September 1946. Also in 1946, ''De Zaanlander'' is one of the co-founders of the group ''Verenigde Noordhollandse Dagbladen'' (VND), a group which will later become part of the Hollandse Dagbladcombinatie, part of the

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and responsible for the publication of the ''

''. ''De Zaanlander'' was published until February 1992, when it merged with ''De Typhoon'', which had been founded by the local Catholic group of the Dutch resistance in 1944—the irony of this was not lost on some of ''De Typhoon'' editors. The merger was motivated by economical concerns: the two papers competed for the same readership, which was not large to begin with: at the time of the merger, ''De Typhoon'' had 21,000 subscribers, and ''De Zaanlander'' had 6,500. The new paper was called ''Dagblad Zaanstreek'', which again merged with a number of other regional papers to form the ''

''.

Notable staff

Martin Bosma Martin Bosma (born 16 July 1964) is a Dutch politician and former journalist serving as a member of the House of Representatives for the Party for Freedom (PVV) since 30 November 2006 and as Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives since 2 ...

, reporter in the early 1970s *

Jan Prins Jan Prins (14 May 1944 in Zaandam – 7 March 2008 in The Hague) was a Dutch newspaper editor and journalist. Prins, born in Zaanstad into a communist family (his uncle was Marcus Bakker), began his journalistic career in the early 1960 as an ...

, apprentice reporter in the early 1960s

References

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External links

Noordhollands Dagblad
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