Wolfgang Mayr (born 1944) is an

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n journalist and former chief editor of

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Life

Mayr was born on 11 June 1944 in

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. The son of an

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teacher and merchant family, he attended the Stift Kremsmünster humanistic high school and then went to study in

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. In 1968, he joined the editorial team of the Austria Press Agency. In 1981 he became deputy head of department and in 1988 head of the foreign policy editorial department. From 1988 he worked as

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, 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. He retired in 2005.Früherer APA-Chefredakteur Wolfgang Mayr feiert 70. Geburtstag.
tt.com, 10 Juni 2014. Retrieved 5 March 2020.Ein Leben in der APA: Chefredakteur Mayr geht in Pension.
APA-OTS, 6 July 2005. Retrieved 21 February 2018. In addition to his journalistic work, Mayr is a passionate

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player and author of several books on the subject together with

Robert Sedlaczek Robert Sedlaczek (born 1952) is an Austrian journalist, Germanist and non-fiction author.Austria Presse Agentur The Austria Press Agency (german: Austria Presse Agentur, APA) is the national news agency and the leading information provider in Austria. It is owned by Austrian newspapers and the national broadcaster ORF. Journalists Fatalities See also ...

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