The New Course is a Christian, in the Netherlands appearing news magazine. It appears ten times a year and has a circulation of about 6,000 copies. The magazine was called cv race until September 2012. The originally Protestant newspaper Trouw got a more progressive tone from the sixties, something that many orthodox Reformers could not agree with. On October 12, 1968, the Reformation-Christian Press Foundation was established. The initiator behind it was Jan Hendrik Velema. Other involved were Jan van der Graaf, Herman Hegger and JJ Rippen. The name course was devised by the Christian Reformed preacher JCMaris. The original intention was to have Koers appear as a daily newspaper, but the basis for that was far too narrow. From March 1970 the magazine appeared as a biweekly magazine. The first editor-in-chief was Huub Verweij, former editor at the communist newspaper De Waarheid . Another prominent editor was Rik Valkenburg. Further gave Emerson Vermaat and Aad Wagenaar contribute a lot in the first few years of existence. The number of subscribers rose to six thousand in the course of the seventies, but at the end of that decade the draft came in and it dropped to four thousand. The board, with Velema still at the head, considered lifting the magazine. There was a lot of dissatisfaction in the board about the conservative tone of the editorial staff. Contact was made with the EO employees Andries Knevel and Ad de Boer and the editors of the Nederlands Dagblad. In the end nothing concrete came about, because the Free-supporters of the ND did not think it would be the case that their magazine would work together with other ecclesiastics. Subsequently, Knevel and De Boer offered in 1983 that they themselves were headingwanted to reform. The board agreed with this and De Boer acted as the new chief editor. Until then, the editors had mainly focused on defense, international politics and the arms race and were rather conservative in terms of tone. The old editors, including Vermaat and Valkenburg, were thanked for their services. The new editorial team decided to allow more discussion in the magazine and to broaden the choice of subjects. This gave more room for themes such as family, economy and ethics. The new course was successful, because the number of subscribers rose by a thousand in two months.