The Wiener Zeitung, the oldest daily newspaper in the world, is being given up and will soon be discontinued. Why and above all: what now?
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Catherine Kahlweit
Walter Hämmerle’s chance encounter with a friend of his from a TV station in the elevator to his office is symptomatic: first there is a big hello and then the confession that the colleague has long wanted to visit the editor-in-chief Hämmerle for a long time, but unfortunately never made it and now urgently want to catch up. “But you have to hurry,” says Hämmerle dryly. “Who knows how long we’ll be here.”