Print media

Print media are publicly subsidised, based on the Media Support Act (PublizistikförderungsG). §7(1) leg. cit. requires media to cover exclusively or predominantly politics, culture or religion and Weltanschauung including related scientific disciplines, in order to be subsidised.
Media owned or issued by legally recognised churches and religious societies may be subsidised even though bodies corporate of public law are generally excluded from subsidies, see §7(3) leg. cit.
Since pursuant to §43(1) of Media Act a copy of every printed medium has to be delivered to the National Library and to other libraries as specifically decreed, it can be referred to the library catalogues as for the numerous religious journals, newspapers, magazines and the like.

Sources and futher information:
– Kalb, Herbert / Potz, Richard / Schinkele, Brigitte, Religionsrecht, Wien, 2003, pp. 182-186.
– Wieshaider, Wolfgang, "Communicating religion in Austria: the media and the arts", in Norman Doe (ed.), The portrayal of religion in Europe: the media and the arts. Leuven, 2004, pp. 5-18 (5-15).
– Tretina, Kerstin / Wurzrainer, Robert, Medien und Religionen, in Karsten Lehmann / Wolfram Reiss (Hg.), Religiöse Vielfalt in Österreich, Baden-Baden, 2022, pp. 493-508.