Wolfgang Mayr (born 1944) is an Austrian journalist and former chief editor of Austria Presse Agentur.
The son of an Innviertel teacher and merchant family, he attended the Stift Kremsmünster humanistic high school and then went to study in Vienna.
From 1988 he worked as managing editor, became deputy editor-in-chief in 1993 and took over as successor to Josef A. Nowak in 1997.
He campaigned for a modern and service-oriented agency, in particular by setting up an image service and a graphic editorial team in the 1980s and 1990s.
[1][2] In addition to his journalistic work, Mayr is a passionate Tarock player and author of several books on the subject together with Robert Sedlaczek.