Editor Susan Rambo Company AspenCore Media | Categories Trade magazine Country United States | |
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Year founded May 1956; 60 years ago (1956-05) (as Electrical Design News) Final issue June 2013 (2013-06) (print) | ||
EDN ( ISSN 0012-7515) is an electronics industry website and formerly a magazine owned by AspenCore Media an Arrow Electronics company. The current Executive Editor is Susan Rambo with editorial offices in San Francisco and New York City. EDN magazine was published monthly, in April 2013 EDN announced that the print edition would cease publication after the June 2013 issue.
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History
The first issue of Electrical Design News — the original name — was published May 1956 by Rogers Corporation of Englewood, Colorado. In January 1961, Cahners Publishing Company, Inc., of Boston, acquired Rogers Publishing Company. In February 1966, Cahners sold 40% of its company to International Publishing Company in London In 1970, the Reed Group merged with International Publishing Corporation and changed its name to Reed International Limited.Acquisition of EEE magazine
Cahners Publishing Company acquired Electronic Equipment Engineering, a monthly magazine, in March 1971 and discontinued it. In doing so, Cahners folded EEE's best features into EDN, and renamed the magazine EDN/EEE. At the time, George Harold Rostky (1926–2003) had been editor-in-chief of EEE. Rostky joined EDN and eventually became editor-in-chief before leaving to join Electronic Engineering Times as editor-in-chief.Taking EDN Worldwide - Roy Forsberg later on became Editor in Chief of EDN magazine - Roy was later promoted to Publisher and Jon Titus PhD was named Editor in Chief - Roy and Jon established EDN Europe -EDN Asia and EDN China creating one of the largest global circulations for a design engineering magazine. EDN's 25th Anniversary Issue was a 425 page folio.
Reed Limited acquires remaining interest in Cahners
In 1977, Reed acquired the remaining interest in Cahners, then known as Cahners Publications. In 1982, Reed International Limited changed its name to Reed International PLC. In 1992, Reed International merged with Elsevier NV, becoming Reed Elsevier PLC as of January 1, 1993. Reed Business Media then removed the Cahners Business Publishing name to rebrand itself as Reed Business Information.Reed sells EDN to Canon Communications LLC
Reed Business Information, part of Reed Elsevier, sold the magazine to Canon Communications LLC February 2010. United Business Media, now UBM LLC, acquired Canon Communications LLC in October 2010. On June 3, 2016 UBM announced that EDN along with the rest of the electronics media portfolio (EE Times, EDN, EDN, Embedded.com, TechOnline and Datasheets.com) to AspenCore Media a company owned by Arrow Electronics for $23.5 million. The acquisition was completed on August 1, 2016.On 9 April 2013 UBM announced that EDN's print edition would cease publication after the June 2013 issue and that the online EDN.com community would continue.
International circulation
EDN is also published in China and Taiwan and in Europe and Japan through partner publishers who license content from UBM Canon.
Content
The website - EDN Network - caters to the needs of the working electrical engineer and cover new technologies and electronic component products at an engineering level. Columns discuss everything from managing engineers and engineering projects to technical issues faced in the design of electronic components, systems, and developing technologies.
Design ideas
The Design Ideas section features several user-submitted designs that are innovative or novel solutions to constrained design problems. Every issue features a column called "Prying Eyes" which disassembles a popular or intriguing consumer product and investigates the technologies that enable it.
Awards
In May 2006, EDN won three awards from the American Society of Business Publication Editors. The Best Regular Department of the Year award went to Prying Eyes.