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 Marcus Bakker (20 June 1923 – 24 December 2009) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Communist Party of the Netherlands (CPN) now merged into the GroenLinks (GL) party and journalist. Biography Early life Bakker was the son of an accountant w ...

), 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 editor-in-chief 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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