De Zaanlander

De Zaanlander was a Dutch regional newspaper published in Zaandam founded in 1885.

With a brief interruption after World War II, when the paper was temporarily banned for having collaborated with the German occupier, it was published until 1992, when it merged with the competing local paper, De Typhoon, to become Dagblad Zaanstreek, which in turn merged with other regional papers to form the Noordhollands Dagblad, now the only regional newspaper for North Holland.

[2] In 1926 it absorbed the Zaanlandsch nieuws- en advertentieblad, a weekly for news and advertising.

[2] During World War II, De Zaanlander had collaborated with the German occupation, and on 4 May 1942 was merged with four other local papers from the region to form Dagblad voor Noord-Holland, under German editorial control.

[7] The merger was motivated by economical concerns: the two papers competed for the same readership, which was not large to begin with: at the time of the merger, De Typhoon had 21,000 subscribers, and De Zaanlander had 6,500.