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Electronics Weekly
EditorRichard Wilson
CategoriesScience and technology magazines
FrequencyWeekly
First issueSeptember 1960
CompanyReed Business Information
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Websitewww.electronicsweekly.com

Electronics Weekly is a weekly magazine for electronics professionals which has been published by Reed Business Information for 47 years. Electronics Weekly is published by the Reed Electronics Group, an arm of Reed Business Information, which is a division of Reed Elsevier. Other magazines published by the Reed Electronics Group include EDN and EPN.

The magazine is available free to electronics professionals who meet the circulation requirements. The bulk of revenue received to fund the magazine comes from display and recruitment advertising.

Electronics Weekly is available in print and digital format and the readership is audited by BPA Worldwide, which verifies its circulation twice yearly. The current circulation figure is 40,918 (Publisher’s Statement August 2007).

Topics covered within the magazine include news and features on design, components, production and research to business stories and product listings. Career Moves is the recruitment section which provides listings of electronics jobs.

Website

ElectronicsWeekly.com is a website for electronics professionals and provides users with news, analysis, features and business stories. ElectronicsWeekly.com also provides information via blogs and RSS feeds.

The site also features Circuit Break which includes a daily Dilbert, sudoku, Slack and a puzzle competition.

Blogs

There are 7 blogs on ElectronicsWeekly.com which are provided by electronics professionals including Electronics Weekly’s David Manners and Richard Wilson and also Warren Savage, CEO of IPextreme, Gary Nevison of Farnell and Pierre Fazan of Innovative Silicon. The last 2 blogs, Made by Monkeys is an analysis of inferior products and shows how other peoples failures can help designer better items and Gadget Freak which details homemade electronics gadgets.

Elektra Awards

Electronics Weekly runs an annual awards ceremony called The Elektras. It has been running for five years and the aim of the awards is to reward the achievements of individuals and firms across the European Electronics industry.