Legacy in Transition: Wiener Zeitung, One of the World’s Oldest Newspapers, Concludes Daily Print Run after 320 Years

…By Gift BADEWO for TDPel Media.

Founded in 1703 as the Wiennerisches Diarium, the newspaper aimed to deliver news in a factual and straightforward manner.

The law eliminated the requirement for companies to pay for publishing commercial registry updates in the print edition.

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This final issue symbolized the newspaper’s rich history and its contribution to informing the Austrian public.

The New Titleholder of the Oldest Daily Newspaper

With the end of Wiener Zeitung’s daily print edition, the title of the world’s oldest daily newspaper now passes to Hildesheim in Germany.

Hildesheim’s first edition was published on June 24, 1705, securing its place in history.