https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Austria in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed One of the world's oldest newspapers still in print, Austria's Wiener Zeitung, will primarily move online starting Saturday, after a decision by the country's parliament. https://www.thelocal.at/20230427/austrias-wiener-zeitung-one-of-worlds-oldest-newspapers-to-end-daily-print-run Thu, 27 Apr 2023 17:23:56 +0200 austrias-wiener-zeitung-one-of-worlds-oldest-newspapers-to-end-daily-print-run Austria's far-right interior minister, Herbert Kickl, insisted on Tuesday that press freedom was "inviolable" as he tried to defuse a storm after his ministry appeared to ask police to limit cooperation with the media. https://www.thelocal.at/20180926/kickl Wed, 26 Sep 2018 10:37:22 +0200 kickl Austria's far-right interior minister, Herbert Kickl, was under fire Tuesday over newspaper reports that his ministry instructed police to limit their cooperation with media that were deemed too critical. https://www.thelocal.at/20180925/austria-minister-kickl-under-fire-over-plan-to-curb-critical-media Tue, 25 Sep 2018 15:52:48 +0200 austria-minister-kickl-under-fire-over-plan-to-curb-critical-media President Alexander Van der Bellen on Friday warned Austria's far-right Freedom Party (FPOe) against using slander to discredit journalists after a series of verbal attacks on state television. https://www.thelocal.at/20180217/austrian-president-warns-far-right-not-to-slander-media Sat, 17 Feb 2018 04:22:54 +0100 austrian-president-warns-far-right-not-to-slander-media When a leading European business school wanted to raise awareness of its new pan-European course, The Local delivered. https://www.thelocal.at/20170321/how-the-local-helped-this-business-school-reach-smart-young-global-citizens Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:59:59 +0100 how-the-local-helped-this-business-school-reach-smart-young-global-citizens You may have noticed that a few things have changed around here. https://www.thelocal.at/20161206/introducing-the-locals-new-design-6 Tue, 06 Dec 2016 08:00:00 +0100 introducing-the-locals-new-design-6 Austria has fallen four places in the global rankings on press freedom, according to freedom of information organisation Reporters Without Borders (RSF). https://www.thelocal.at/20160420/press-freedom-under-more-threat-in-austria Wed, 20 Apr 2016 13:39:33 +0200 press-freedom-under-more-threat-in-austria Court proceedings opened on Monday against an Austrian newspaper for publishing a photo of a German man wrongly identified as the co-pilot who deliberately crashed a Germanwings plane in the French Alps in March. https://www.thelocal.at/20150817/austrian-paper-sued-over-wrong-photo-of-germanwings-co-pilot Mon, 17 Aug 2015 19:52:10 +0200 austrian-paper-sued-over-wrong-photo-of-germanwings-co-pilot Fifteen digital radio programs are now available in the greater Vienna area as part of the Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB+) pilot operation. https://www.thelocal.at/20150605/austria-switches-on-digital-radio-pilot Fri, 05 Jun 2015 10:06:07 +0200 austria-switches-on-digital-radio-pilot The Local has been providing news in English from around Europe for ten years. To mark this milestone, we are delighted to unveil our fresh new logo. Paul Rapacioli explains. https://www.thelocal.at/20141215/introducing-the-locals-new-logo Mon, 15 Dec 2014 13:06:00 +0100 introducing-the-locals-new-logo The respectable Austrian daily broadsheet Der Kurier has called out one of its tabloid rivals over a "nasty piece of photojournalism". https://www.thelocal.at/20140702/oesterreich-newspaper-caught-faking-photo Wed, 02 Jul 2014 12:21:00 +0200 oesterreich-newspaper-caught-faking-photo