page_title: Vrij Nederland
hierarchical_section_title: Vrij Nederland
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Minister Korthals Altes houdt een Vrij Nederland op in de Tweede Kamer, naast hem minister Ruding. Beiden worden genoemd in Vrij Nederland in verband met mogelijke betrokkenheid bij de Slavenburg's affaire. Den Haag, 19 mei 1983.
context_page_description: Vrij Nederland is a Dutch magazine, established during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II as an underground newspaper. It has since grown into a magazine. The weekly magazine is traditionally intellectually left-wing, in recent years it became more centrist. It is one of the four most influential written media in its sector, along with Elsevier, De Groene Amsterdammer and HP/De Tijd, now all with a stagnating or dwindling readership of their printed media. Publisher of Vrij Nederland is WPG Media in Amsterdam.
  The offices are in a monumental building from 1914 on Raamgracht 4, on the corner with the Kloveniersburgwal.
  The first issue was published on 31 August 1940. The chief editors have included:
  1940–1942: Frans Hofker
  1941–1950: Henk van Randwijk
  1950–1955: Johan Winkler
  1955–1969: Mathieu Smedts
  1969–1991: Rinus Ferdinandusse
  1991–1997: Joop van Tijn
  1998–2000: Oscar Garschagen
  2001–2004: Xandra Schutte
  2004–2005: Gerard van Westerloo
  2005–2008: Emile Fallaux
  2008–2015: Frits van Exter
  2017–present: Ward Wijndelts
  The circulation has decreased from 1945 on, except for an increase in the 1970s:
  1945: 109,000
  1947: 32,000
  1951: 35,000
  1955: 19,000
context_section_description: Vrij Nederland (Free Netherlands) is a Dutch magazine, established during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II as an underground newspaper. It has since grown into a magazine. The weekly magazine is traditionally intellectually left-wing, in recent years it became more centrist. It is one of the four most influential written media in its sector, along with Elsevier, De Groene Amsterdammer and HP/De Tijd, now all with a stagnating or dwindling readership of their printed media. Publisher of Vrij Nederland is WPG Media in Amsterdam.
  The offices are in a monumental building from 1914 on Raamgracht 4, on the corner with the Kloveniersburgwal. 
  The first issue was published on 31 August 1940. The chief editors have included:
  1940–1942: Frans Hofker
  1941–1950: Henk van Randwijk
  1950–1955: Johan Winkler
  1955–1969: Mathieu Smedts
  1969–1991: Rinus Ferdinandusse
  1991–1997: Joop van Tijn
  1998–2000: Oscar Garschagen
  2001–2004: Xandra Schutte
  2004–2005: Gerard van Westerloo (interim)
  2005–2008: Emile Fallaux
  2008–2015: Frits van Exter
  2017–present: Ward Wijndelts
  The circulation has decreased from 1945 on, except for an increase in the 1970s:
  1945: 109,000
  1947: 32,000
  1951: 35,000
  1955: 19,000
  1960: 23,000
  1965: 36,950
  1970: 81,378
  1975: 109,381
  1978: 117,165
  1980: 111,857
  1985: 97,132
  1990: 76,947
  2000: 55,947
  2001: 53,669 (−4.1%)
  2002: 53,413 (−0.5%)
  2003: 52,868 (−1.0%)
  2004: 50,124 (−5.2%)
  2005: 49,244 (−1.8%)
  2006: 47,082 (−4.4%)
  2007: 46,671 (−0.9%)
  2008: 44,115 (−5.5%)
  2009: 44,860 (+1.7%)
  2010: 48,353 (+7.8%)
  2011: 45,534 (−5.8%)
  2012: 40,872 (−10.2%)
  2013: 35,649 (−12.8%)
  2014: 31.623 (−11.3%)
  2015: 22.937 (−27.5%)
  2016: 19.875 (−13.3%)
caption: Minister Frits Korthals Altes with the Vrij Nederland (19 May 1983) at the Tweede Kamer, next to him Onno Ruding. Both are linked by Vrij Nederland Slavenburg's bank affair [nl].
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