EDN is an electronics industry website and formerly a magazine owned by AspenCore Media, an Arrow Electronics company. The editor-in-chief is Majeed Ahmad. EDN was published monthly until, in April 2013, EDN announced that the print edition would cease publication after the June 2013 issue.

History it was the first issue of Electrical Design News, the original name, was published in May 1956 by Rogers Corporation of Englewood, Colorado. In January 1961, Cahners Publishing Company, Inc., of Boston, acquired Rogers Publishing Company.Robert Alden, "Addenda", The New York Times, January 26, 1961 In February 1966, Cahners sold 40% of its company to International Publishing Company in LondonBrendan Jones, "Britons Mapping Publishing Deal", February 17, 1966 In 1970, the Reed Group merged with International Publishing Corporation and changed its name to Reed International Limited moms.Reed Elsevier: History

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,Philip H. Dougherty, "Making 27 and 2 Equal 28", The New York Times, March 30, 1971 and renamed the magazine EDN/EEE. At the time, George Harold Rostky (1926–2003) was 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.http://silicongenesis.stanford.edu/transcripts/rostky.htm "Oral history: Interview with George Rostky"], (transcript) July 20, 1995, Silicon Genesis, Stanford University, The Stanford and the Silicon Valley Project, July 20, 1995. Also available as video

Taking EDN worldwide Roy Forsberg later became editor-in-chief of EDN magazine. He was later promoted to publisher and Jon Titus PhD was named editor-in-chief. Forsberg and Titus established EDN Europe, EDN Asia and EDN China, creating one of the largest global circulations for a design engineering magazine. EDNs 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 on 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, Canon acquired by United Business Media, UBM sells EDN to AspenCore Media Reed Business Information, part of Reed Elsevier, sold the magazine to Canon Communications LLC in February 2010."Canon Communications to Expand Global B-to-B Media Presence in Advanced Manufacturing Segment", press release, February 16, 2010 United Business Media, now UBM LLC, acquired Canon Communications LLC in October 2010. On June 3, 2016, UBM announced that EE Times, along with the rest of the electronics media portfolio (EDN, Embedded.com, TechOnline and Datasheets.com) was being sold to AspenCore Media, a company owned by Arrow Electronics, for $23.5 million. The acquisition was completed on August 1, 2016.

On April 9, 2013, UBM announced that EDNs print edition would cease publication after the June 2013 issue and that the online EDN.com community would continue.

Michael Dunn led EDN through mid-2018. Santo succeeded him shortly thereafter and Majeed Ahmad became Editor-in-Chief in August 2020.

International editions EDN CirculationNorth America"Business Publication Circulation Statement for the 6 Month Period Ended December 2011", Shelton, CT: BPA Worldwide, 2012 Year Total Print % Digital % 1999 164,949 2000 136,024 2001 134,015 2002 134,021 2003 134,025 2004 134,025 2005 133,922 2006 134,026 2007 131,948 2008 125,011 2009 113,010 2010 113,048 2011 101,700 71,700 70.5 30,000 29.5

EDN is also published in China and Taiwan and in Japan by ITmedia, Inc. which licenses content from AspenCore Media.

Publishing Segment The website, EDN Network, caters to the needs of the working electrical engineer and covers 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.

ASBPE 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".

Executives and journalists William M. Platt, appointed publisher of EDN in December 1967 by Cahners PublishingPhilip H. Dougherty, "Advertising: People", The New York Times, December 29, 1967 Robert H. Cushman (1924–1996), editor for EDN from 1962 to the late-1980s covering, among other things, the early development of microprocessing

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External links EDN website EDN Asia EDN China EDN Japan EDN Taiwan