Het laatste nieuws

The Laatste Nives newspaper has been published since 1888 . The first issue was published on July 7, 1888, five days before the general election. The first publisher of the newspaper was Julius Hoste, who posed two tasks for her - the promotion of liberal values ​​and the protection of the interests of the Flemings in Brussels in the conditions of "French bourgeois hegemony." In this capacity, Laatste Nives became the mouthpiece of Flemish nationalism and anti-clericalism, helped to save the , which staged performances in Dutch, and elected the first Flemish liberal city administration in Ghent in 1907.

After the death of Julius Khoste-father, the management of the newspaper passed to his son, bearing the same name. Julius Khoste-son softened the harsh tone of publications, making Laatste Nives more moderate and academic. Under him, more local news began to appear in the newspaper, which contributed to its distribution in different regions of Belgium. During World War II, Khoste was forced to flee Belgium, but the newspaper continued to be published under German occupation , and after the war the owner had to restore her reputation from scratch.

The political line of Laatste Nives remained invariably liberal even after the death of Khost-son in 1954. The Laatste Nives Foundation was founded in 1955, the statute of which contains direct references to , the ideological program of the Liberal International . The Statute guaranteed the preservation of the liberal ideology of Laatste Nives to journalists and readers. In 1957 , in the face of increasing competition from television, there was a partial merger of the publishing houses of the two leading liberal publications in Belgium - Laatste Nives and the Antwerp De Nieuwe Gazet - which ended six years later. According to the terms of the association, Laatste Nives became a regional publication, but retained its own editorial staff. In the 70s and 80s, control over the Laatste Nivs passed to the Van Tillo family, who in 1989 also acquired the left-wing newspaper De Morgen . The editors of the center-right Laatste Nives and De Morgen remain independent of each other.

Since 1993, the newspaper concern, which includes Laatste Nives, De Nieuwe Gazet and De Morgen , has been the property of the De Persgroep Publishing Group. In 1995-96, Laatste Nives was the largest national newspaper in Belgium with more than 300 thousand subscribers (for comparison, the largest French-language Belgian newspaper had a little more than 180 thousand subscribers) ^[2] . Since 2008, the newspaper has been published in a reduced format, Monday issues include two sports applications, and on Saturday, the weekly women's magazine NINA.

• Het Laatste Nieuws (nid.) . Kranten in de Klas. Date of treatment October 13, 2014.