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320-year-old newspaper to end print run
[GEO.TV] The Austrian parliament decided Thursday to end the print run of one of the world's oldest newspapers Wiener Zeitung and move it online.The decision came after a years-long spat between the Austrian government and the newspaper around the fate of the state-owned paper. The paper, founded in 1703, initially circulated under the name Wiennerisches Diarium and was later renamed to Wiener Zeitung in 1780. The Daily was a private entity until it was nationalised by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria in 1857, becoming the country's official gazette. "It is adopted with a majority," Norbert Hofer, the third president of the parliament, said of a new law to shift the publication online from July 1. However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... the old paper will keep a minimum of ten print publications per year, relying on the budgets available. The World Association of News Publishers told the press that, in 2004, the Wiener Zeitung was ranked as one of the oldest newspapers still in circulation. The newspaper's primary source of income as the official gazette will move to a separate state-owned online platform. The Austrian government claimed that this was in accordance with a European order to centralise and issue official information online. Posted by: Fred 2023-04-28 |
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