The 1999 team of
© Photo made by Etienne Busink in Dordrecht at 4 January 1999
This is the team of De Stem van
Dordt, it was the best read weekly newspaper in
Dordrecht, Papendrecht and Zwijndrecht.
It was delivered on tabloid-format door-to-door on
Wednesday in 85.000 issues.
Standing (from left to right):
Monique Bosma, Alice Crawford, Marian Bruin and
Eveline van de Lagemaat. Sitting (from left to right):
Dick Elshout, Leo Roubos and
Piet van Westen. Karin van Rooy was not there when the
photo was made.
Unfortunately you still can not
find De Stem van Dordt on Internet.
And may be it never will.
De Stem van Dordt was started
in by
the 2 salesmen Henny Goud and George Grootenboer
who left the regional daily newspaper De Dordtenaar.
They sold De Stem van Dordt in
1986 to
the regional daily newspaper De Stem
in Breda.
When De
Stem merged with Brabants
Nieuwsblad,
De Stem van Dordt was sold to De Dordtenaar in 1996.
I left De Stem van Dordt 1
November 1999 to work for Radio
Rijnmond.
In December 1999 and after almost 20 years De Stem merged
with
the other weekly newspaper in Dordrecht, called Woensdag.
The strongest title staid but it got the format of
Woensdag.
No issues in Papendrecht and Zwijndrecht anymore.
De Stem van Dordt since then
never will be the same (and that's an understatement).
Funny thing is that the first
journalist
of De Stem van Dordt - Thijs
Blom - now is
my colleague at Radio
Rijnmond in Dordrecht.
Also one of the salesmen of De
Stem van Dordt
- Piet van Westen -
did not like the new format of De Stem van Dordt
and at 4 October 2000
he started his OWN newspaper
in the 'old De Stem van Dordt style', called:
It is on internet since some months!
I wish him all the luck he needs!
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