World's oldest national newspaper prints final edition after 320 years

[brooklynite]

Source: The Guardian

The world’s oldest national newspaper has printed its last daily edition almost 320 years after it began.

Wiener Zeitung, a Vienna-based daily newspaper, will no longer print daily editions after a recent law change meant it had ceased to be profitable as a print product.

The law, which was passed in April by Austria’s coalition government, ended a legal requirement for companies to pay to publish public announcements in the print edition of the newspaper, terminating Wiener Zeitung’s role as an official gazette.

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The newspaper, which is owned by the Austrian government but is editorially independent, began publishing in August 1703 and has seen out 12 presidents, 10 kaisers and two republics.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jul/01/worlds-oldest-newspaper-prints-final-edition-after-320-years

[SouthernDem4ever]

1. Makes me sad to see it close

Electronic media is all well and good but there's nothing like print media to make a more permanent impression.

[Polybius]

2. Weird law

Sorry to see it go.

[dalton99a]

3. .

[NBachers]

4. How soon before the human population becomes electronic EFT's in the cloud network?

[GenThePerservering]

5. I'm all pissed off about that

new fangled printing press. It's just not the same without a scribe.

[kaotikross]

8. It's all been downhill

since clay and hieroglyphics. In my day when somebody pressed "Dogheaded man, Ankh, Falcon Headed man, three wavy lines" into clay with a sharp stick we KNEW what they meant. Now it's all opinion.

[Botany]

6. Wird Herr Gutenberg noch einen Job haben?

[Kid Berwyn]

7. Heartbreaking.

The national touchstone for Austria, the trusted universal news source, is lost.

There also is a lesson for us, those who believe in democracy.