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| Type | Daily morningnewspaper |
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| Format | Compact |
| Owner | Mediahuis |
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| Founded | 1 January 1893; 132 years ago (1893-01-01) |
| Language | Dutch |
| Headquarters | Basisweg 30 Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Circulation |  393,537 (2017) |
| Website | www |
De Telegraaf (Dutch pronunciation:[dəteːləˈɣraːf];[1] English:The Telegraph) is the largestDutch daily morningnewspaper.[2] Paul Jansen has been the editor-in-chief since August 2015.[2]De Telegraaf is based inAmsterdam and is owned by theBelgian companyMediahuis.
De Telegraaf was founded byHenry Tindal, who simultaneously started another paperDe Courant (lit. 'The Gazette'). The first issue appeared on 1 January 1893.
Following Tindal's death on 31 January 1902 the printerHMC Holdert, with backing from financiers, took overDe Telegraaf andDe Courant on 12 September 1902. This proved to be a good investment, particularly with regard toDe Courant, enabling Holdert between 1903 and 1923 to take over one newspaper after another, suspending publication as he went. He added the nameAmsterdamsche Courant ("Amsterdam Gazette") as a subtitle toDe Telegraaf, andHet Nieuws van den Dag ("The News of the Day") toDe Courant.
DuringWorld War I, when the Netherlands was officiallyneutral, Holdert'sFrench sympathies and his pro-British standpoint causedDe Telegraaf to be the focus of some controversy, as the Netherlands were usually pro-German at the time.
In 1926, Holdert began construction of a new printing facility at theNieuwezijds Voorburgwal in Amsterdam, designed byJ. F. Staal andG. J. Langhout. Construction was completed and the building occupied in 1930.
DuringWorld War II, the Telegraaf companies published pro-Nazi German papers, which led to a thirty-year ban on publishing after the war. The prohibition was lifted in 1949 andDe Telegraaf flourished anew to become the biggest newspaper in the Netherlands.
At one point, in June 1966, the Telegraaf building was besieged by angry construction workers andProvo followers, after a false report that a victim of a labour dispute had been killed not by the police but by a co-worker. In 1974,De Telegraaf moved to a new location on theBasisweg.
In 1995–1996De Telegraaf had a circulation of 760,000 copies, making it the best-selling paper in the country.[3]
De Courant/Nieuws van de Dag ceased publication in 1998. In 1999, the circulation of the paper was 808,000 copies, making it the ninth best-selling European newspaper.[4]
De Telegraaf was the eighth top European newspaper with a circulation of 807,000 copies in 2001.[5] It added a Sunday edition on 21 March 2004. The Sunday edition was dropped on 27 December 2009. Circulation was 488,902 copies in 2013.[6]De Telegraaf changed frombroadsheet tocompact format in October 2014.[5][7] In 2014, was 455,727,[8] dropping to 430,686 in 2015.[9] Distribution had been reduced to 393,537 in 2017.
On 26 June 2018, a delivery van intentionally rammed into the office building ofDe Telegraaf, catching fire afterwards which was probably started by the driver who made his getaway with another car. The building took considerable damage.[10] Police believe the attack was done within organized crime circles; four days earlier the building ofPanorama was also a target, possibly because both publications write about serious crime.[11]
The newspaper contains many sensational and sports-related articles, and one or more pages supplied by thegossip-magazinePrivé ("Private"). The financial news coverage is more serious in tone. The paper targets a broad audience, mostly in a conservative and populist style.[12]
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