Nu.nl
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Type of site
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News |
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| Available in | Dutch |
| Owner | Sanoma |
| Slogan(s) | Het laatste nieuws lees je het eerst op NU.nl. ("You read the latest news first on NU.nl"). |
| Website | www |
| Alexa rank |
 1,619 (April 2016) |
| Launched | 1999 |
| Current status | online |
NU.nl is a Dutch online newspaper. Aside from their own news articles the site also features articles bought from news agencies ANP and Novum. The website has two full-time political editors in The Hague. Gert-Jaap Hoekman is the editor-in-chief of NU.nl. The site's publisher is Joost Bon. Research journalist Brenno de Winter is also linked to NU.nl.
NU.nl is part of the Finnish media group Sanoma Media, which aside from several printed publications and websites also owns the search engine Ilse and Dutch web portal Startpagina.nl.
The site was founded in 1999 and back then was the first Dutch news website that published news 24 hours a day. Kees Zegers, Sacha Prins, Merien ten Houten and Robert Klep were the site's founders and Joost Boermans and Charlotte van Berne were its first editors. The site was a joint venture of Ilse Media Groep b.v. and Virtual Industries Online Marketing Solutions b.v. In 2001 Nu.nl changed hands to Sanoma, when Ilse Media Groep was bought by VNU.
In 2002 Rogier Swagerman became editor-in-chief. Together with Wiggers (publisher) he started collecting pictures from readers. These pictures were offered to news agencies. In 2002 NU.nl made a mobile version of its site available for use. In 2006 Swagerman was replaced by Laurens Verhagen (up to then editor at Webwereld).
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