Beeld

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Beeld
Beeld Logo.svg
Type Daily newspaper
Format Broadsheet
Owner(s) Naspers
Publisher Media24
Editor-in-chiefBarnard Beukman
Sports editorGert van der Westhuizen
Founded16 September 1974
Language Afrikaans
Headquarters Johannesburg
Sister newspapers Die Burger, Volksblad
Website www.beeld.com

Beeld (freely translated as Picture or Image) is an Afrikaans-language daily newspaper that was launched on 16 September 1974. Beeld is distributed in four provinces of South Africa: Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and North West, previously part of the former Transvaal province. Die Beeld (English: The Image) was an Afrikaans-language Sunday newspaper in the late 1960s.

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In June 2024 Naspers announced that it would close the newspaper, along with City Press, Rapport, and the Daily Sun, in October of that year due to declining newspaper sales. [1] A month later Media24 announced it will suspend the planned closures until the Competition Commission approves of its plan to sell newspaper distribution company On-The-Dot to Novus, which was the reason behind the papers' planned shuttering. [2]

Supplements

List of editors

Distribution areas

Distribution [4]
20082014
Eastern Cape
Free StateYY
GautengYY
Kwa-Zulu NatalYN
LimpopoYY
MpumalangaYY
North WestYY

Distribution figures

Circulation [5]
Net Sales
2000100 000 [1]
Oct – Dec 201266 132
Jul – Sep 201270 070
Apr – Jun 201273 595
Jan – Mar 201275 019
Oct – Dec 201364 874
Jul – Sep 201364 329
Apr – Jun 201364 073
Jan – Mar 201367 700
Jan – Mar 201462 766 [6]
Apr – Jun 201459 544
Jan – Mar 201551 064 [6]
202420 000 [1]

Readership figures

Estimated Readership [7] [8]
AIR
Jan 2012 – Dec 2012441 000
Jan 2013 – Dec 2013485 000

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