Digital News
{{Short description|Defunct computer newspaper}}
{{use mdy dates|date=May 2021}}
{{use American English|date=May 2021}}
Digital News{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/20/business/company-news-in-surprise-digital-picks-finance-chief-from-inside.html
|title=COMPANY NEWS; In Surprise, Digital Picks Finance Chief From Inside
|author=Glenn Rifkin |date=June 20, 1992}} was a trade publication that focused on products from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).{{cite web
|url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8t72p80/entire_text/
|title=Guide to the Digital Equipment Corporation records
|work=Computer History Museum |date=April 2017}}
History
They published independently from 1986 thru 1992. At that point, they were acquired and merged with Digital Review with the new title Digital News & Review. DEC product news and reviews from Sonny Monosson, which were featured on the Digital Business pages of Digital News{{cite news |newspaper=Digital News |page=85
|title=Digital Business: Adjusting to Changes in Computers
|author=Sonny Monosson |date=July 10, 1989}} were retained in the pages of Digital News & Reviews.
The Boston Globe had described the situation between the prior publication owners as "The war among the Digitals: Bitter competition reflects growing rivalry between Ziff, McGovern empires."{{cite news
|newspaper=The Boston Globe |date=May 17, 1985
|title=The war among the Digitals: Bitter competition reflects growing rivalry between Ziff, McGovern empires}} The combined Digital News & Review periodical was printed from 1992 to 1996 by Reed Business Information.{{cite web
|url=https://archive.org/details/pub_digital-news-review
|title=Digital News & Review 1992-1996: Free Texts}}{{cite web |issn=1065-7452
|url=https://librarytest.usask.ca/ejournals/view.php?id=110978978557233
|title=Electronic Journal - University Library - University of Saskatchewan}}
=''Hardcopy'' (magazine)=
In 1988, Digital News acquired 1980-founded {{anchor|Hardcopy (magazine)}} Hardcopy magazine (stylized HARDCOPY).{{cite news
|newspaper=The Los Angeles Times
|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-06-08-fi-3795-story.html
|title=Hardcopy, Technical Magazine for Users of Digital, Is Sold by Seldin Publishing
|author=John Tighe |date=June 8, 1988}} At the time, International Data Group Ziff Davis published "a third DEC-users journal, Boston-based Digital Review." {{visible anchor|The DEC Professional}} was the fourth player.{{cite magazine
|magazine=Digital Age |publisher=Cardinal Business Media |date=April 1997
|title=formerly DEC Professional}}{{cite book
|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8656402
|title=The DEC Professional (Journal, magazine)|oclc=8656402 }}
References
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Category:Defunct mass media companies of the United States
Category:Defunct newspaper companies of the United States
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