The weekly is the major news magazine in the country[1] and has been in circulation since October 1992.

News magazine was established by Helmut and Wolfgang Fellner and was first published in October 1992.

[5][6] The Fellner brothers sold the some shares of the company to Gruner + Jahr,[7][8] a subsidiary of Bertelsmann.

[14] As of 2010 the editor-in-chief of the magazine was Peter Pelinka who was appointed to the post in February that year.

[12] In June 2005, News was fined by an Austrian court following its publication of Finance Minister Karl Heinz Grasser's photos kissing Fiona Swarovski, an heiress of the Swarovski crystal dynasty.