Students receive a free digital news subscription from DPG Media

Yes, you read that correctly: students receive a free digital news subscription from DPG Media. The reason? “With this step, DPG Media wants to close the ‘news gap’ among young people and increase media literacy,” the media company said.

Are you a Zoetermeer student between 16 and 25 years old? Then from October 14, you can use your student card to gain free digital access to all eleven national and regional DPG titles.

No fake news

Erik Roddenhof is CEO of DPG Media and says about the campaign: “The majority of young people mainly come into contact with news via social media, where it is full of fake news and it has been proven that young people have difficulty or cannot distinguish it from facts. With this initiative we hope to remove the barrier to quality journalism by offering the news free of charge to students.”

Independent journalism

By giving students free access to quality journalism, they can become acquainted with different perspectives, opinions and forms of journalism. DPG deliberately chose to roll out this campaign just before the elections: “When independent journalism is of great importance.”

And-and

Erik: “It is also about adjusting our journalistic formulas. We know that young people consume news in a different way, both on platforms and in form. In addition to removing the barrier to our news titles, our editors are also working on new journalistic forms that suit this target group. It is both and.”

The newspapers

These are the Dutch national and regional newspapers that students can read online without restriction: de Volkskrant, Trouw, Het Parool, AD, Brabants Dagblad, ED, Tubantia, BN DeStem, PZC, De Stentor, De Gelderlander.