Electronic News

[citation needed] In 1971, journalist Don Hoefler published a series of articles entitled "Silicon Valley, USA" in Electronic News.

[citation needed] Also in 1982, Electronic News communications industry reporter Frank Barbetta broke 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.

After barely a year as part of Chilton, 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.