S periodičnim izlaženjem novina u sjevernoj Europi potkraj 16. stoljeća, vijesti iz različitih dijelova Europe počinju se brzo i učinkovito širiti, a Nizozemlje se u tom procesu ističe kao predvodnik. Članak se bavi vijestima o Dubrovniku koje su se pojavljivale u nizozemskim novinama Oprechte Haerlemsche Courant između 1656. i 1699. godine. Utvrđuje se koje informacije dopiru do tih novina i kojim putevima dotječu te se izvode zaključci o politici novina prema izvještavanju iz tog dijela Europe. ; This article looks at how Dubrovnik was reported in one of the oldest newspapers in the world, the Dutch Oprechte Haerlemsche Courant, whose first edition dated from 1656. The different issues of the newspaper contain about fifty articles discussing various topics relating to Ragusa between 1656 and 1699. A comparative analysis with German and French newspapers dating from the same period revealed that the news about Dubrovnik that eventually reached Haarlem had already been heavily framed and edited in Venice, which was one of the main centres of news dissemination in early modern Europe. Examples concerning the Oprechte Haerlemsche Courant's coverage of the plague outbreak in Dubrovnik and Ragusan relations with the Ottoman Empire made it possible to show that the Low Countries in that period did not make much effort to establish a direct reporting from Dubrovnik, and that Dubrovnik also did not invest in some kind of independent apparatus through which unedited important news items could reach West-European centres. Literature about early-modern news dissemination has shown that a complex network of communication and messaging between different cities in Europe resulted in newspapers taking over each other's information. However, the complete silence on the disastrous Ragusan earthquake of 1667 in the Dutch newspaper questions the general value of this theory.