The ''Reformatorisch Dagblad'' (; "
Reformed Daily") is a Dutch
Protestant
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newspaper
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with a circulation of around 60,000, headquartered in
Apeldoorn
Apeldoorn (; Dutch Low Saxon: ) is a municipality and city in the province of Gelderland in the centre of the Netherlands. It is located about 60 km east of Utrecht, 60 km west of Enschede, 25 km north of Arnhem and 35 km south of Zwolle. The ...
. The conservative newspaper was founded in 1971 and is associated with the
Reformed Political Party
The Reformed Political Party ( nl, Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij, SGP) is a conservative CalvinistThese sources describe the SGP as a Calvinist political party:
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. It is one of only a handful of daily national papers remaining in the Netherlands.
Website
''Reformatorisch Dagblad'' has had a website since 1997. To honor the day of rest, pages on their website are not available on Sundays. It is closed on Sunday, exactly from midnight to midnight (according to the
IP address
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location). A message is shown that the newspapers would like to see them come back on another day of the week. The news items and many other parts are therefore not available. In January 2012, the website received the domain name rd.nl, which had long been desired by the newspaper, but previously belonged to 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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Circulation
Total paid and targeted circulation in accordance to HOI, Instituut for Media Auditing and Jan van de Plasse: ''Kroniek van de Nederlandse dagblad- en opiniepers'', Otto Cramwinckel Uitgever, Amsterdam 2005, .
* 1975: 31.200
* 1980: 46.200
* 1985: 48.290
* 1990: 52.240
* 1995: 56.540
* 2000: 58.023
* 2003: 57.324
* 2015: 43.528
* 2016: 42.740
* 2017
41.513
References
External links
''Reformatorisch Dagblad'' (official site)
{{Dutch newspapers
Daily newspapers published in the Netherlands
Conservatism in the Netherlands
Mass media in Apeldoorn