!!!Verband Österreichischer Zeitungen

Verband Oesterreichischer Zeitungen, VOeZ (Austrian Newspaper 
Association, until 1996 ''Verband oesterreichischer 
Zeitungsherausgeber und Zeitungsverleger''), founded May 4, 1946, 
voluntary association of owners, publishers, editors and other 
journalistic, commercial and technical staff members of daily and 
weekly newspapers and magazines; represents the interests of Austria's 
15 dailies and 64 weeklies and magazines (1999) vis-à-vis the 
government, business and the general public. It defends freedom of 
expression as a fundamental right and fights for the preservation of 
media variety, promotes reading and supports newspaper companies (  
(see) Press) as they strive to develop into communication companies.  
Jointly with the   (see) Concordia Press Club and the International 
Press Institute (IPI) the Association sponsors the Concordia Award for 
Human Rights and Freedom of the Press. It has cooperated with   (see) 
ORF and   (see) Austrian College since 1999 in organising the Alpbach 
Media Symposium. Since 1953 publisher of the annual Press Handbook.

!Literature
W. Schaffelhofer, Der oesterreichische Verband der 
Zeitungsherausgeber und Zeitungsverleger, in: A. Fritz and F. Ivan 
(ed.): Zukunftsunternehmen Zeitung, 1995; Presse 1999, Dokumentation, 
Analysen, Fakten - Taetigkeitsbericht des VOeZ, 1999.


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