After graduating from the University of Vienna he practiced as a lawyer. Eduard Bacher became the parliamentary reporter of the Liberal Viennese daily Neue Freie Presse (1872), and later he became editor in chief of that paper (1879), and eventually its publisher (1888). He was politically active in the German Liberal Party in Vienna. Theodor Herzl was a staff member of his newspaper, but because Bacher opposed the Herzl’s Zionism, he forbade the Zionist leader to publish articles on Zionist issues in his newspaper.