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{{Short description|Dutch newspaper}}
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| name                   = Trouw
| logo                   = Trouw (2020-01-29).svg
| logo_alt               = Trouw de Verdieping
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| caption                = Front page of ''Trouw'' on 27 March 2010
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| type                   = [[Daily newspaper]]
| format                 = [[Compact (newspaper)|Compact]]
| owner                  = [[DPG Media]]<ref>[https://www.dpgmedia.nl/merk/trouw Trouw] (in Dutch), DPG Media. Retrieved 12 January 2020.</ref>
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| chief_editor           = Cees van der Laan<ref name="chiefeditor">Loes Reijmer, "[https://www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/cees-van-der-laan-nieuwe-hoofdredacteur-trouw~a3561828/ Cees van der Laan nieuwe hoofdredacteur Trouw]" (in Dutch), ''[[de Volkskrant]]'', 13 December 2013. Retrieved 1 November 2017.</ref>
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| founded                = {{start date and age|1943|2|18|df=yes}}
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| language               = [[Dutch language|Dutch]]
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| headquarters           = Jacob Bontiusplaats 9<ref>[https://www.trouw.nl/service/contact Contact] (in Dutch), Trouw. Retrieved 12 January 2020.</ref>
| publishing_city        = [[Amsterdam]]
| publishing_country     = Netherlands
| circulation            = 102,631
| circulation_date       = 2017
| circulation_ref        = <ref>[https://dundasbi.reports.nl/NOM/Dashboard/Dashboard?guidinput=dc9bce15-0701-489b-b0a3-af153fe33049 Oplage dagbladen] (in Dutch), Nationaal Onderzoek Multimedia. Retrieved 1 November 2017.</ref>
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| website                = {{URL|trouw.nl}}
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'''''Trouw''''' ({{IPA|nl|trʌu|-|Nl-trouw.ogg}}; {{literally}} {{lang|en|"loyal", "true"}}) is a Dutch [[daily newspaper]] appearing in [[Compact (newspaper)|compact]] size. It was founded in 1943 as an orthodox [[Protestantism|Protestant]] [[Dutch underground press|underground newspaper]] during [[World War II]]. Since 2009, it has been owned by [[DPG Media]] (known as De Persgroep until 2019). ''Trouw'' received the [[European Newspaper Award]] in 2012.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Case Study "Trouw": The new profundity in the newspaper – with daily supplements|date=2013|url=http://enc.newsroom.de/lang/en/enc-2013/case-study-2-die-neue-tiefe-in-der-zeitung-mit-taglichen-beilagencase-study-2-die-neue-tiefe-in-der-zeitung-mit-taglichen-beilagen/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150102153946/http://enc.newsroom.de/lang/en/enc-2013/case-study-2-die-neue-tiefe-in-der-zeitung-mit-taglichen-beilagencase-study-2-die-neue-tiefe-in-der-zeitung-mit-taglichen-beilagen/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 January 2015|work=European Newspaper Congress}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=European Newspaper of the Year - Category Nationwide Newspaper - Trouw, the Netherlands|date=2012|url=http://www.editorial-design.com/13/e/trouw.html|work=Editorial Design|access-date=4 March 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121206065107/http://www.editorial-design.com/13/e/trouw.html|archive-date=6 December 2012}}</ref> Cees van der Laan is the current [[editor-in-chief]].<ref name="chiefeditor"/>

==History==
''Trouw'' is a [[Dutch language|Dutch]] word meaning "fidelity", "loyalty", or "allegiance", and is cognate with the English adjective "true". The name was chosen to reflect allegiance and loyalty to God and country in spite of the [[Reichskommissariat Niederlande|German occupation of the Netherlands]].

''Trouw'' was started during [[World War II]] by members of the [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[Protestantism|Protestant]] [[Dutch resistance|resistance]] against the [[German occupation of the Netherlands|German occupation]]. Hundreds of people involved in the production and distribution of the newspaper were arrested and killed during the war. The newspaper was published irregularly during the war due to lack of paper. In 1944 the German forces tried to stop publication by rounding up and imprisoning some 23 of the couriers. They issued an ultimatum to the leaders of ''Trouw''; however, the editors did not give in and all of the captured couriers were executed. Amongst the people that lost their life during the war due to their involvement with the newspaper was Trouw co-founder and resistance member {{Ill|Wim Speelman|nl}}.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The illegal press. |date=2014|url=http://www.verzetsmuseum.org/museum/en/tweede-wereldoorlog/kingdomofthenetherlands/thenetherlands/thenetherlands,may_1943_-_may_1944/the_illegal_press|work=Dutch Resistance Museum|access-date=4 March 2014}}</ref>

After the war the paper became a daily, its allegiance to the [[Reformed Churches in the Netherlands]]. By 1967, though, the paper's chief editor made it clear that ''Trouw'' was not to be considered a paper only for Christians: it wanted to be a paper for everyone. In the course of time the percentage of ''Trouw'' readers that belong to the Reformed churches shrank considerably: in 1965 69% of readers belonged to one of those churches, but by 1979 this had dropped to 48%, and by 1999 to 28%. In their own words, in 2005, they intended to "remain a newspaper rooted in a Christian tradition and to be a source of contemplation and inspiration for everyone, churchgoer or not, who feels a need for moral and spiritual orientation."<ref>{{Cite web|title=Trouw - nieuws, verdieping en gids|date=18 August 2005|url=http://www.trouw.nl/tr/nl/4324/nieuws/article/detail/1576473/2005/08/18/Trouw-nieuws-verdieping-en-gids.dhtml|work=De Persgroep Nederland|access-date=4 March 2014}}</ref>

Circulation at the end of the 20th century was a little over 133,000.<ref>{{cite book|author=Jan de Bas|title=Een mijter zonder kruis: Sint-Nicolaas in de protestantse pers 1945-2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gyBeHYkyqigC&pg=PA29|year=2003|publisher=Verloren|isbn=9789065507709|page=29}}</ref> On 3 February 2005, ''Trouw'' changed its format from [[broadsheet]] to [[Compact (newspaper)|compact]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Netherlands: National daily Trouw to go compact|url=http://wef.blogs.com/editors/e_tabloid_vs_broadsheet/|access-date=5 February 2015|work=Editors Weblog|date=30 November 2004}}</ref>

Currently, ''Trouw'' is a part of the De Persgroep Nederland, the name given to the former PCM group after the Belgian publishing house [[De Persgroep]] bought a majority stake in PCM in the summer of 2009. ''[[NRC Handelsblad]]'', ''[[Algemeen Dagblad|Het AD]]'', ''[[Het Parool]]'' and ''[[de Volkskrant]]'' are also owned by De Persgroep Nederland. NRC Handelsblad was sold before the summer of 2010.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}}

==References==
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==External links==
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* {{Official website|https://www.trouw.nl/}} (in Dutch)
* [http://www.illegaletrouw.nl/ Illegale Trouw] (in Dutch), underground issues from 1943–1945

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