One of World’s Oldest Newspapers Ends Daily Print Edition

By Bob Neubauer

Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Credit: Pixabay

A Vienna-based newspaper first published in 1703 has stopped printing its daily editions after a law change ended a legal requirement for companies to pay to publish public announcements, drying up the revenue source for the printed product, according to Printweek. The paper, Wiener Zeitung, is so old that some of Mozart’s earliest concerts were reportedly promoted in its pages.

The only time the paper stopped printing in its long history was in 1939 when it was shut down by the Nazis. The paper reportedly had a circulation of 20,000 on weekdays, and twice that on weekends.

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Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 170 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.