Electronic News was a publication that covered the electronics industry , from semiconductor equipment and materials to military/aerospace electronics to supercomputers. It was originally a weekly trade newspaper , which covered all aspects of the electronics industry, including semiconductors, computers, software, communications, space and television electronics.
13-414: Fairchild Publications started the newspaper in 1957, as a complement to its other trade newspapers, including Women's Wear Daily , Home Furnishing Daily , Supermarket News , among others. At its peak in 1984, Electronic News took in $ 25 million in revenue with margins above 50%. The following year, the newspaper began losing advertising and influence to rival Electronic Engineering Times , beginning
26-679: A decline that eventually led to the newspaper's demise. In 1971, journalist Don Hoefler published a series of articles entitled "Silicon Valley, USA" in Electronic News . This is thought to be the first journalistic use of the phrase Silicon Valley to describe the area of the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in northern California , United States, an area known for its concentration of companies making semiconductors , among them Intel , LSI Logic , and National Semiconductor . Also in 1971, Electronic News
39-578: Is a division of Penske Media Corporation (PMC), and is the leading source of fashion news and analysis for industry leaders and the global fashion community. Fairchild Publications was founded in 1892 when Edmund Fairchild, a peddler, took over the Daily Trade Record (later the Daily News Record and DNR ), a failing newspaper that covered the men's clothing business. In June 1910, an insert called "Women's Wear" first appeared in
52-659: The Record ; a month later, Fairchild published it as a standalone publication, known today as Women's Wear Daily . John Fairchild , grandson of Edmund Fairchild assumed management of Women’s Wear Daily in 1955 and transformed it from a trade journal to a leading fashion and cultural newspaper. In 1968, the company—then named Fairchild Publications—was purchased by Capital Cities Communications . In 1996, The Walt Disney Company acquired Capital Cities/ABC. In 1997, Disney announced its intention to sell Fairchild, but it wasn't until 1999 that it sold Fairchild to Advance Publications ,
65-570: The paper was sold in 1991 to the publishing house International Data Group . After a year of losses, IDG sold the paper in 1993 to an independent investor group put together by one-time publisher Zachary Dicker. In 1996 the paper was sold to Reed Business Information . Reed Business Information sold the magazine to Canon Communications in February 2010. In October 2010 Cannon Communications was acquired by United Business Media , now UBM LLC. The final edition of Electronic News to be printed on paper
78-475: The parent company of Condé Nast Publications, for $ 650 million. In 2005, Advance Publications folded Fairchild into Condé Nast Publications and rebranded the division as the Fairchild Fashion Group. In 2008, it folded DNR . In 2010, Fairchild launched Menswear and took over the consumer-centric Style.com , previously part of Condé Nast Publications. In 2011, Fairchild Fashion Group
91-610: The print publication. The publication hosts the annual FN Achievement Awards, which has been referred to as the "Shoe Oscars." It also hosts the FN CEO Summit, an event with footwear industry CEOs, designers, and brand builders. Footwear News was owned by Condé Nast and operated under the Fairchild Media brand. It became a part of Penske Media Corporation when the company purchased Fairchild Media for $ 100 million in 2014. This fashion -related article
104-766: The story on the Bell System Divestiture which resulted in the break-up of American Telephone & Telegraph Company , and published the first interview with Judge Harold H. Greene . The paper eventually grew to have a staff of three dozen full-time journalists, working out of headquarters staffed by full-time journalists in New York City and bureaus in Boston , Washington, D.C. , Miami , Atlanta , Dallas , San Francisco , Los Angeles , Denver , Chicago , Minneapolis and Tokyo . In addition, stringers reported in from more than 100 locations around
117-484: The world. In 1987, the paper's corporate parent, Fairchild Publications was acquired by Capital Cities Broadcasting , which went on to acquire the American Broadcasting Company , now a unit of The Walt Disney Company . The publication was transferred from Fairchild to Chilton , then a division of Capital Cities/ABC, as the result of a reorganization. After barely a year as part of Chilton,
130-462: The years, the company's portfolio has included the following publications: Footwear News Footwear News (sometimes referred to as FN ) is a weekly print publication on the topic of women's, men's, and children's footwear. Founded in 1945, its coverage is for the fashion design and fashion retail industries. It was originally published by Fairchild Media . The publication also operates FootwearNews.com which runs more consumer content than
143-399: Was dated December 2, 2002. It continued online until it was later merged into EDN . Fairchild Publications Fairchild Media is a publisher of digital media, journalism, photography and design, events and summits, video and studios, and fashion. Fairchild Media brands include Women’s Wear Daily , Footwear News (FN), Beauty Inc , M and Fairchild Summits. Fairchild Media
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#1732771760618156-609: Was renamed Fairchild Fashion Media; in October of that year, FFM launched Style.com/Print , a print magazine extension of the brand. In 2012, FFM sold its Fairchild Books division to Bloomsbury Publishing for $ 6.5 million. The same year, it acquired Fashion Networks International, a blog network with contributors that included Anna Dello Russo, Bryanboy, Rumi Neely, and Derek Blasberg. In August 2014, Advance Publications announced that it would sell FFM, save for Style.com and NowManifest , to Penske Media Corp. for $ 100 million. Over
169-619: Was where Intel first advertised the Intel 4004 microprocessor, considered to be the first single-chip microprocessor . A decade later, in 1981, when IBM's top-secret Project Acorn emerged as the IBM Personal Computer - the PC - the first reports were published in Electronic News in the weeks before the introduction, much to IBM 's consternation. Also in 1982, Electronic News communications industry reporter Frank Barbetta broke
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