<p>One of the world's oldest newspapers still in print, <a href="http://'True artistry': Austria puppets charm with age-old craft Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/international/world-offbeat/true-artistry-austria-puppets-charm-with-age-old-craft-1199409.html" target="_blank">Austria's</a> Wiener Zeitung, will primarily move online, after a decision Thursday by the country's parliament.</p>.<p>The development marks the final step in a years-long dispute between the Austrian government and the newspaper about the future of the state-owned daily.</p>.<p>Founded in 1703 under the name Wiennerisches Diarium, and later renamed Wiener Zeitung in 1780, the formerly private bi-weekly paper was nationalised by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria in 1857, becoming the country's official gazette.</p>.<p>"It is adopted with a majority," Norbert Hofer, the third president of the parliament, said of a new law to primarily move the publication online from July 1.</p>.<p>The paper will maintain a minimum of ten print publications per year, depending on the funds available.</p>.<p>The Wiener Zeitung was in 2004 ranked as one of the oldest newspapers still in circulation, the World Association of News Publishers told <em>AFP</em>.</p>.<p>The newspaper's role as official gazette, it's main source of revenue, will move to a separate state-owned online platform.</p>.<p>The government argued that this was in line with a European directive to centralise and publish official information online.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, the Wiener Zeitung will establish a media hub, a content agency, and a training centre for journalists.</p>.<p>"Some fear that the government just wants to keep the Wiener Zeitung brand with its 320-year-old history, while nobody knows what the future publication will look like -- whether it will still be serious journalism," its vice managing editor Mathias Ziegler told <em>AFP</em>.</p>.<p>Almost half of the newspaper's over 200 employees -- 40 of whom are journalists -- could be laid off, according to its trade union.</p>.<p>The Wiener Zeitung has a circulation of about 20,000 on weekdays and about twice as much on weekends.</p>.<p>EU Commission Vice-President Vera Jourova told Austrian news agency APA that she was "not happy with the situation".</p>.<p>"I think the Wiener Zeitung played a good role in informing people over the years".</p>.<p>Several hundred people took to the streets in Vienna on Tuesday to protest the government's move.</p>
<p>One of the world's oldest newspapers still in print, <a href="http://'True artistry': Austria puppets charm with age-old craft Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/international/world-offbeat/true-artistry-austria-puppets-charm-with-age-old-craft-1199409.html" target="_blank">Austria's</a> Wiener Zeitung, will primarily move online, after a decision Thursday by the country's parliament.</p>.<p>The development marks the final step in a years-long dispute between the Austrian government and the newspaper about the future of the state-owned daily.</p>.<p>Founded in 1703 under the name Wiennerisches Diarium, and later renamed Wiener Zeitung in 1780, the formerly private bi-weekly paper was nationalised by Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria in 1857, becoming the country's official gazette.</p>.<p>"It is adopted with a majority," Norbert Hofer, the third president of the parliament, said of a new law to primarily move the publication online from July 1.</p>.<p>The paper will maintain a minimum of ten print publications per year, depending on the funds available.</p>.<p>The Wiener Zeitung was in 2004 ranked as one of the oldest newspapers still in circulation, the World Association of News Publishers told <em>AFP</em>.</p>.<p>The newspaper's role as official gazette, it's main source of revenue, will move to a separate state-owned online platform.</p>.<p>The government argued that this was in line with a European directive to centralise and publish official information online.</p>.<p>Meanwhile, the Wiener Zeitung will establish a media hub, a content agency, and a training centre for journalists.</p>.<p>"Some fear that the government just wants to keep the Wiener Zeitung brand with its 320-year-old history, while nobody knows what the future publication will look like -- whether it will still be serious journalism," its vice managing editor Mathias Ziegler told <em>AFP</em>.</p>.<p>Almost half of the newspaper's over 200 employees -- 40 of whom are journalists -- could be laid off, according to its trade union.</p>.<p>The Wiener Zeitung has a circulation of about 20,000 on weekdays and about twice as much on weekends.</p>.<p>EU Commission Vice-President Vera Jourova told Austrian news agency APA that she was "not happy with the situation".</p>.<p>"I think the Wiener Zeitung played a good role in informing people over the years".</p>.<p>Several hundred people took to the streets in Vienna on Tuesday to protest the government's move.</p>