One of the world’s oldest newspapers ended its daily print run.

One of the world’s oldest newspapers ended its daily print run.

The last edition of Austrian newspaper Wiener Zeitung.

One of the world's most established papers still on paper, Austria's Wiener Zeitung, will principally move online after a decision on Thursday by the nation's parliament.

The improvement denotes the last move towards a years-long question between the Austrian government and the paper about the fate of the state-claimed everyday.

Established in 1703 under the name Wiennerisches Diarium and later renamed Wiener Zeitung in 1780, the previously confidential fortnightly paper was nationalized by Ruler Franz Joseph I of Austria in 1857, turning into the country's true periodical.

"It is embraced with a larger part," Norbert Hofer, the third leader of the parliament, said of another regulation to principally move the distribution online from July 1.

The paper will keep at least ten print distributions each year, contingent upon the assets accessible.

The Wiener Zeitung was positioned in 2004 as quite possibly the most seasoned paper still available for use, the World Relationship of Information Distributors told AFP.

The paper's job as the authority newspaper, its primary wellspring of income, will move to a different state-claimed internet-based stage.

The public authority contended that this was in accordance with an European order to concentrate and distribute official data on the web.

In the meantime, the Wiener Zeitung will lay out a media centre, a substance office, and an instructional hub for writers.

"Some apprehension that the public authority simply needs to keep the Wiener Zeitung brand with its 320-year-old history, while no one understands what the future distribution will resemble—whether it will in any case be serious reporting," its bad habit overseeing supervisor Mathias Ziegler told AFP.

Close to half of the paper's more than 200 workers—40 of whom are columnists — could be laid off, as indicated by its worker's organisation.

The Wiener Zeitung has a circulation of around 20,000 on work days and about two times as much on weekends.

EU Commission VP Vera Jourova told Austrian news organisation APA that she was "not content with the present circumstances."

"I think the Wiener Zeitung played a decent part in illuminating individuals throughout the long term." A few hundred individuals rioted in Vienna on Tuesday to protest the public authority's turn.