Jan Prins (14 May 1944 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 ...

– 7 March 2008 in

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) was a Dutch newspaper editor and journalist. Prins, born in

Zaanstad Zaanstad () is a Dutch municipality in the province of North Holland, situated northwest of Amsterdam. Its main city is Zaandam. It is part of the conurbation and metropolitan area of Amsterdam. It had a population of in . Topography Popul ...

into a communist family (his uncle was Marcus Bakker), began his journalistic career in the early 1960 as an apprentice reporter at ''

De Zaanlander ''De Zaanlander'' was a Dutch regional newspaper published in Zaandam founded in 1885. With a brief interruption after World War II, when the paper was temporarily banned for having collaborated with the German occupier, it was published until 19 ...

'', after which he went on to work for Sijthoff in The Hague, and to become

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of the ''

Rotterdams Dagblad The ''Algemeen Dagblad'' () or ''AD'' () (English: "General Daily Paper") is a Dutch daily newspaper based in Rotterdam, Netherlands. History and profile ''Algemeen Dagblad'' was founded in 1946. The paper is published in tabloid format and is ...

''.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Prins, Jan 1944 births 2008 deaths Dutch newspaper editors People from Zaanstad 20th-century Dutch journalists