The editor and publisher of the NRC Handelsblad newspaper have resigned following a disagreement with the paper’s new owners about its future direction.

The row centres on a ‘unbridgeable difference of opinion about guaranteeing journalistic autonomy,’ the paper states in a news article.
Editor Birgit Donker and publisher Gert-Jan Oelderik decided to leave the company after a discussion with the paper’s supervisory board, the article states, without giving further details.
The NRC was taken over by a investment fund Egeria and tv company Het Gesprek at the end of last year.
Egeria is an investment arm of the wealthy Brenninkmeijer family, which owns the C&A clothing retail group. Het Gesprek is partly owned by Derek Sauer, who founded the Moscow Times.