Financieele Dagblad

Het Financieele Dagblad is the leading financial and business daily newspaper in the Netherlands, based in Amsterdam. It focuses on economics, markets, companies, and finance, serving a professional and investor audience, with coverage that is generally pro-market in orientation. The publication combines its print edition with a website covering Dutch and international business.

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Financieele Dagblad at a glance

Country: Netherlands
Region: Western Europe · Europe
Kind of outlet: Business daily
Editorial leaning: Centrist
Founded: 1943
Owner: FD Mediagroep
Published from: Amsterdam
Website: fd.nl ↗
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How Crosswire groups Financieele Dagblad

Crosswire groups Financieele Dagblad as Centrist for comparisons within the Netherlands' directory. Center includes both centrist outlets and outlets for which the directory has no confident classification. It is not evidence that this outlet is neutral or more accurate. In the Netherlands, NRC and De Groene Amsterdammer are listed as Left-leaning, while WNL is listed as Right-leaning — so you can open Financieele Dagblad beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.

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Where Financieele Dagblad sits in the Netherlands' press

Financieele Dagblad was founded in 1943, is published from Amsterdam and is owned by FD Mediagroep. It is one of 5 outlets tracked in the Netherlands and the only business daily tracked there. By outlets tracked, the Netherlands ranks 29th of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Europe hub, which lists 264 outlets in all.

Across Europe, Crosswire tracks 13 of the 30 business dailies in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Financieele Dagblad outside the Netherlands, starting with Western Europe, are L'Echo (Belgium), Financial Times (United Kingdom), Dagens Industri (Sweden) and Kauppalehti (Finland). Opening one of them beside Financieele Dagblad is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.