VRT NWS
{{Short description|Flemish public news channel}}
{{Infobox website
| name = VRT NWS
| logo = VRT_NWS_logo_2022.svg
| logo_caption = Logo since August 2022
| language = {{UBL
| Dutch
| French
| English
| German
}}
| area_served = Flanders, Belgium
| owner = VRT
| services = News
| url = {{URL|https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/}}
}}
VRT NWS{{Efn|Known as VRT Nieuws until 2017.{{Cite news |date=13 January 2017 |title=VRT Nieuws gaat binnenkort verder als VRT NWS |url=https://mediamagazine.nl/vrt-nieuws-gaat-als-vrt-nws/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210623152540/https://mediamagazine.nl/vrt-nieuws-gaat-als-vrt-nws/ |archive-date=23 June 2021 |access-date=8 May 2025 |work=Mediamagazine |language=nl}}}} is the main news channel of the Flemish national broadcasting company VRT. It has an {{Ill|vrtnws.be|lt=associated website|nl}} which provides text articles on news, analyses, and general background information.
Content
As the main news channel of the Flemish national broadcasting company VRT, VRT NWS is government funded, but its editors operate independently. VRT NWS is the main provider of audio-visual news in Dutch-speaking Belgium, with only one private company offering a comparable service. The VRT NWS website offers text articles all contemporary news, but also aims to provide more in depth-analyses as well as general background information. In addition to this content, the website also places a lot of stress on historical remembrance, with entire sections of its homepage dedicated to, for example, the events of World War I and II. VRT NWS targets a very broad audience with easily digestible texts and, together with De Standaard and De Morgen, cater to a large part of the Flemish population.{{Free-content attribution
| title = {{Harvnb|Ridder|2020|pp=3-4}}
| license statement URL = https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
| license = CC-BY 4.0
}}
Reception
A 2020 study of various popular Flemish news outlets found VRT NWS to be the most trusted among the Flemish public, adding that "The public broadcaster might not always be the most used news brand, but it is still the most trusted."{{Sfn|Picone|Donders|2020|pp=353-354}}
References
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- {{Cite journal |last=Ridder |first=Bram De |date=2020-12-04 |title=When the Analogy Breaks: Historical References in Flemish News Media at the Onset of the COVID-19 Pandemic |url=https://brill.com/view/journals/joah/2/1-2/article-p1_1.xml |journal=Journal of Applied History |volume=2 |issue=1–2 |pages=1–16 |doi=10.1163/25895893-bja10003 |issn=2589-5893|doi-access=free }}
- {{Cite journal |last1=Picone |first1=Ike |last2=Donders |first2=Karen |date=2020-08-24 |title=Reach or Trust Optimisation? A Citizen Trust Analysis in the Flemish Public Broadcaster VRT |url=https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/3172 |journal=Media and Communication |volume=8 |issue=3 |pages=348–358 |doi=10.17645/mac.v8i3.3172 |doi-access=free |issn=2183-2439}}
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External links
- [https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/ Official website in Dutch]
- [https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/fr/ Official website in French]
- [https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/ Official website in English]
- [https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/de/ Official website in German]
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