Supplements and other extensive reports were published during war time, mainly about Austria, the Franco-Austrian Alliance, and their mutual enemy Prussia.

Field journals and diaries from the Austrian army were the main sources used by the paper, reporting on officer promotions, troop deployments and other public announcements pertaining to the war, mostly of local interest.

Such announcements, for example, civil service vacancies and changes in the commercial register, are printed in the Official Journal insert of Wiener Zeitung.

[citation needed] The issue is even more controversial since today the only authentic source of Austrian statutory law is the Internet,[3] whereas business publications also have to be announced through Wiener Zeitung.

[2] In March 2021, the Austrian government led by Chancellor Sebastian Kurz proposed a law that would no longer require companies to pay to publish public announcements and changes to commercial registry in the paper's print edition, citing rules from the European Union that allowed such corporate information to be published digitally.

][citation needed] Walter Hämmerle [de] resigned as editor-in-chief, a position he held since 2018, at the end of 2022 when he felt it became clear that the newspaper would be restructured.

The paper also announced plans to establish a media hub, a content agency and a training centre for journalists.

Wiener Zeitung intends to continue online with a monthly print run and an editorial staff of 20 employees.

[6][18] Katharina Schmidt, formerly product development for Wiener Zeitung, and Sebastian Pumberger, previously working on the digital form of Profil, were announced as interim editors-in-chief the same day.

[6][20][17] The title of world's oldest newspaper still in print is also attributed to Gazzetta di Mantova, The London Gazette (1665),[20][1] the weekly Berrow's Worcester Journal (1690),[21] and Haarlems Dagblad (1883), through its forcible merger with the Weeckelycke Courante van Europa (1656).