In September 1904 J. Sinjewel started the free paper Vraag en Aanbod (English: Supply and demand) in Oud-IJmuiden.
[3] From 1926 to 1942 the Oprechte Haerlemsche Courant operated the Dagblad van IJmuiden (English: Daily paper of IJmuiden; 1926-1942), later known as Het dagblad voor IJmuiden - Velsen - Beverwijk - Driehuis - Santpoort (English: Daily paper for IJmuiden - Velsen - Beverwijk - Driehuis - Santpoort),[5] and in 1931 Haarlems Dagblad started Het Nieuwe Avondblad (English: The New Evening paper).
[3][4][6] During World War II the IJmuider Courant was canceled on 16 October 1941 by order of the German occupation forces.
On 15 June 1984 the IJmuider Courant published the results of the European Parliament election for the municipality of Velsen, despite being forbidden, by posting a journalist at every polling place and using the Dutch law which states that election results are counted publicly.
[13] The IJmuider Courant is distributed in Velsen, Driehuis, Santpoort-Noord, Velserbroek, Velsen-Zuid, IJmuiden, Velsen-Noord and Santpoort-Zuid.
[2] HDC Media operated about 150 journalists out of which more than half works in regional centres and the rest at the headquarters in Alkmaar.