Austria news, front pages compared
Crosswire tracks 6 major Austria news outlets. Preview their homepages side by side below — switch between two, three and four columns, go compact, or translate every page into your language. Or jump straight to a curated comparison by political leaning.
The Austria media landscape on Crosswire
Crosswire lays Austria's front pages next to one another so you can see which stories lead where, how headlines are framed, and what one outlet foregrounds that another leaves out. The 6 titles tracked here span the spectrum — 1 we place on the left, 2 near the centre and 3 on the right — so a comparison can genuinely cross editorial lines rather than sampling one side twice.
By kind of outlet, the 6 titles break down as 3 daily newspapers (Der Standard, Kurier and Die Presse), 1 news portal (OE24), 1 public broadcaster (ORF) and 1 tabloid (Kronen Zeitung). The public-service broadcaster is ORF — the natural fixed point for a comparison, because a public remit is breadth rather than a party line.
Austria sits in Western Europe, on Crosswire's Europe hub. By outlets tracked it is 4th of the 9 countries in Western Europe and 9th of the 45 across Europe, where the average is 5.9 outlets per country. Its neighbours in Western Europe with hubs of their own are Germany (11), France (11), Belgium (6), Luxembourg (6), Netherlands (5), Switzerland (5), Monaco (3) and Liechtenstein (2).
Leaning groupings are approximate guides drawn from widely cited media-bias assessments — see the methodology and what the labels can and can't tell you. Counts are taken from the directory as of .
Which are Austria's main news outlets?
Across Austria's editorial spectrum, Crosswire currently lists on the left, Der Standard; near the center, Kurier and ORF; on the right, Kronen Zeitung, Die Presse and OE24. Each outlet below links to a full profile — its facts, editorial leaning and a live front-page preview — and the comparison view above shows any of them side by side.
Der Standard is an Austrian daily newspaper published in Vienna and one of the country's leading quality dailies. It is widely regarded as liberal in outlook and covers politics, economics, culture, and international affairs in depth. Its website is among the most visited German-language news sites in Austria.
Kronen Zeitung, commonly known as the Krone, is Austria's largest-circulation daily tabloid newspaper. With an exceptionally high reach relative to the country's population, it covers news, politics, crime, sport, and entertainment in a popular, accessible style and is influential in shaping public opinion.
Kurier is one of Austria's major daily newspapers, published in Vienna. It offers general-interest coverage of national and international news, politics, business, and culture for a broad readership, positioned editorially between the country's quality and popular press.
Die Presse is a Vienna-based national daily founded in 1848, one of Austria's oldest newspapers. It has a classical-liberal, center-right editorial line and a reputation for highly factual reporting, aimed at an educated, business-minded readership.
ORF (Österreichischer Rundfunk) is Austria's national public broadcaster, based in Vienna. Its news.ORF.at portal is among the country's most-used and most-trusted news sources, providing centrist coverage across television, radio and online.
OE24 is a free Austrian news portal and TV channel owned by the Fellner family's Mediengruppe Österreich, based in Vienna. Known for sensationalist, populist coverage, it leans to the right and has a large online readership.
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