During World War II the newspaper met the demands of the German occupation.
[3] The newspaper suffers from a declining and aging readership and an editorial staff that has been cut to the bare minimum.
Most functions of the newspaper production have moved to the somewhat larger Noordhollands Dagblad in Alkmaar.
After TMG was acquired by Mediahuis, these functions moved to De Telegraaf offices in Amsterdam.
In 2018 Hugo Schneider was editor-in-chief for the De Gooi- en Eemlander, Noordhollands Dagblad, and other Mediahuis regional newspapers.