de Volkskrant
de Volkskrant (Dutch pronunciation: [də ˈvɔl(ə)kskrɑnt]; The People's Paper) is a Dutch daily morning newspaper. Founded in 1919, it has a nationwide circulation of about 250,000.
Type
Pieter Klok
2 October 1919
4 October 1941
8 May 1945
Jacob Bontiusplaats 9
Netherlands
Formerly a leading centre-left Catholic broadsheet, de Volkskrant today is a medium-sized centrist compact. Pieter Klok is the current editor-in-chief.
Circulation[edit]
In 2001 the circulation of De Volkskrant was 335,000 copies.[8] The daily circulation of the paper was 326,000 copies in 2002, dwindling to some 235,000 in 2011. The paper's circulation has heavily declined since then.
Print circulation remains the third of the Netherlands, after De Telegraaf and Algemeen Dagblad.
Typeface[edit]
The typeface Capitolium News by Gerard Unger (2006) has been the main type used in de Volkskrant since 2 December 2006.
