Wiener Rathaus: Media Center for election reports open!

Wiener Rathaus: Media Center for election reports open!

1010 Wien, Österreich - On March 31, 2025, the City of Vienna presented a comprehensive concept for reporting on the upcoming Vienna election 2025. On April 27, 2025, national and international media representatives will be invited to the media center in the Vienna City Hall. The city wants to create optimal working conditions for journalists in order to report comprehensively on the upcoming election events.

The media center is set up in the ballroom and coat of arms of the town hall, where these premises are converted into TV studios and media work areas. The invitation is aimed at everyone who wants to report on this decisive date in Vienna. Information on the accreditation is online on the website Medienzentrum.wien.gv.at

accreditation details and access

For access to the media center, preliminary accreditation is required, which must be carried out by April 20, 2025 at the latest. This serves to ensure security and the smooth handling of the reporting. Later accreditations are not possible, so interested parties should register early. The media center opens at 3 p.m. on election Sunday, and admission is only permitted with a valid accreditation.

The planning and implementation of these measures are reminiscent of the preparations for the National Council election in Austria, which took place on September 29, 2024. There, too, the parliamentary directorate set up a media center for journalists, in which parliament's premises were converted into TV studios and jobs. These also had to be accredited in advance in order to receive access, such as parlament.gv.at informed.

comparison between the elections

For the National Council election, the media centers were opened on election day at 10 a.m., and the first preliminary election results were announced around 10 p.m. The accreditation took place through the Federal Press Service, and jobs with Power connections as well as LAN and WLAN were available for journalists. Registrations have now been accepted on the Federal Chancellery's website.

These parallels between the elections underline the importance of creating suitable framework conditions for information reporting, which are essential for a transparent and democratic choice. So while in Vienna, attention is paid to the needs of the media representatives, extensive precautions could also be taken in the last national elections to ensure thorough media reporting.

For questions about accreditation in Vienna, the city is available under the specified website. The upcoming elections are a crucial step in Viennese city policy, and there will therefore also be the focus in the coming weeks.