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Electronics Weekly is the market-leading, longest-established electronics brand in Britain — a trade journal for electronics professionals first published on 7 September 1960. Established in 1960, it is read by key decision-makers throughout the industry, reaching an international audience of 200,000 people each month across online, email, social media and events. First published by Reed Business Information, it was purchased by Metropolis International in August 2012; its website is electronicsweekly.com.
The title announced itself as "Britain's FIRST Electronics Newspaper" — the first newspaper in the United Kingdom devoted specifically to electronics, then the country's fastest-growing industry. Its founding editor was Cyril C. Gee, previously editor of British Communications and Electronics. The magazine's circulation was recorded at 25,000 copies in 2023, and it is available free to qualified electronics professionals, funded principally by display and recruitment advertising.
The front page of the first edition, dated 7 September 1960, announced the paper's arrival under the headline "Britain's FIRST Electronics Newspaper." The announcement declared: "This newspaper makes journalistic history — it is the first newspaper in the United Kingdom to be devoted specifically to electronics, Britain's fastest growing industry." Its basic policy was "to provide an easily readable medium for the rapid dissemination of news — scientific, technical, commercial, statistical, financial — relating to the electronic industry in the United Kingdom."
The paper set out to serve research workers, engineers, technical and business executives, government officials and sales representatives — enabling them to keep in touch with broad developments in world electronics without becoming bogged down in detail, with emphasis on outstanding developments and applications, and weekly news on electronic trends abroad. The title has since scanned and published that very first edition online, and marked its 65th anniversary in 2025 with special celebratory features.
The founding editor was Cyril C. Gee, who had previously edited British Communications and Electronics. Gee understood that electronics — then emerging from its roots in radio and radar into computers, semiconductors and consumer products — needed its own journalistic voice: faster than the learned journals, more focused than the general technical press.
Under his editorship the paper established the formula it retains today: news and features on design, components, production and research, alongside news stories and product listings. The current editor is Caroline Hayes, continuing a line of specialist editors who have kept the title at the centre of the UK electronics industry for more than six decades.
Electronics Weekly was first published by Reed Business Information (RBI), the business publishing giant, and remained an RBI title for more than half a century. In August 2012 Metropolis International purchased the title from RBI — part of a wave of B2B disposals that also saw titles such as Retail Jeweller move to new owners.
Under Metropolis the brand has continued as the market-leading electronics title, developing its digital operation, events portfolio and international reach. The magazine's readership is audited by BPA Worldwide, which verifies its circulation — 40,918 copies in 2007, and 25,000 in 2023 — reflecting both the title's enduring reach and the changing economics of B2B print.
Topics covered within the magazine include news and features on design, components, production and research — the full span of the electronics industry, from semiconductor breakthroughs and component releases to manufacturing, test and measurement, power, RF and wireless, and the business stories behind the technology. Product listings and news stories keep readers current with the components and tools of their trade.
The title is available free to qualified electronics professionals — a controlled-circulation model that delivers advertisers a precisely targeted audience of the engineers, designers, managers and buyers who specify and purchase electronic products. Display and recruitment advertising provide the bulk of the revenue that funds the journalism.
ElectronicsWeekly.com is described as the market-leading website globally for electronics professionals — the online arm of the brand and its leading source of industry information for more than 65 years. The site provides news, analysis, features and business stories, plus blogs, photo galleries, video, a diary of events and even a daily Sudoku.
In March 2015 the site launched EW Compare, a comparison tool powered by OEMsecrets.com — a price-comparison engine for electronic parts and components, integrated into product articles so readers can search product news, compare and buy online from authorised distributors and manufacturers. The innovation showed a B2B title adapting e-commerce tools to serve its professional audience.
The website hosts a wide range of blogs offering expert commentary and discussion: Mannerisms, Made by Monkeys, Gadget Master, Eyes on Android, University Electronics Research, Disti-World, Electro-ramblings, Engineer in Wonderland, LED Luminaries and Viewpoints, among others. Covering LEDs, Android, legislation, the semiconductor industry and the lighter side of engineering life, they give the brand a community voice beyond its news reporting.
Readers rate the brand's editorial as informative, interesting and relevant — a verdict that reflects more than six decades of specialist journalism. The blogs, RSS feeds and social channels keep the conversation going between issues, in the weekly rhythm the paper established in 1960.
Electronics Weekly runs an annual awards ceremony, the Elektra Awards, running since 2002 to reward the achievements of individuals and firms across the European electronics industry. The brand's events portfolio also includes the BrightSparks programme — recognising young engineering talent — and the Women Leaders in Electronics Awards, celebrating female leadership in the industry.
These programmes make the brand a convenor as well as a publisher: celebrating achievement, nurturing new talent and championing diversity in an industry where all three matter profoundly. The awards are among the most prestigious dates in the European electronics calendar.
From the first edition of 7 September 1960 — scanned and readable online today — to the 65th-anniversary features of 2025, Electronics Weekly has been the continuous thread of the British electronics industry: through the transistor and the microchip, the personal computer and the mobile phone, to artificial intelligence and the semiconductor strategies of the 2020s.
As the longest-established electronics brand in the market, read by key decision-makers and reaching 200,000 people a month, it remains what Cyril C. Gee founded it to be: the rapid, readable dissemination of the news that matters to electronics professionals — in print, online, and at the industry's great gatherings.
Electronics Weekly announced itself on 7 September 1960 under the headline "Britain's FIRST Electronics Newspaper" — the first newspaper in the United Kingdom devoted specifically to electronics, then Britain's fastest-growing industry. Its founding editor was Cyril C. Gee, previously editor of British Communications and Electronics, and its launch manifesto promised research workers, engineers, executives, government officials and sales representatives a readable medium for the rapid dissemination of scientific, technical, commercial and financial news. The new black-and-white paper reported on the UK's space industry, telecommunications projects and the early semiconductor industry.
Over 65 years the title has charted the rise and fall of major companies and identified trends that grew into movements shaping the modern world. Circulation stood at 40,918 copies in 2007 and 25,000 in 2023, and the magazine remains free to qualified electronics professionals, funded chiefly by display and recruitment advertising. In August 2012 Metropolis International purchased the title from Reed Business Information. Caroline Hayes serves as editor. The digital journey began with the website in 1999, newsletters in 2000, a digital edition in 2007, the EW Compare price-comparison tool — powered by OEMsecrets.com and integrated into product articles — in March 2015, and the EW-TV video channel in 2018. Its blogs include Mannerisms, Made By Monkeys, Gadget Master, Eyes on Android, Disti-World and Electro-ramblings, and since 2002 it has run the annual Elektras awards rewarding achievement across the European electronics industry. The 65th anniversary was celebrated in September 2025. Its website is electronicsweekly.com.
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