[7] In 1898 prominent journalist, theologian and future Prime Minister Abraham Kuyper became chair of the NJK, greatly raising its reputation and influence.

[8] Due to the pillarization of the Netherlands at the time, Catholics and Protestants set up their own alternative journalistic associations in the years after the NJK's founding.

[9] In 2022 the NVJ, together with other press freedom groups, began a legal case in the European Court of Justice against the banning of Russian state media channels RT and Sputnik in the wake of the Russia-Ukraine War.

General-secretary of the NVJ Thomas Bruning said that although they do not agree with the state propaganda output of these channels, it is dangerous for the democratic order to allow governments to ban them.

"[11][12] The CTIVD also criticized the use of journalists by the AIVD and MIVD, saying they did not properly take into account the risks involved in this activity, particularly in high-risk foreign countries.