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“The photography industry has undergone significant changes since PDN was first published in 1980, and the needs of professional photographers have changed along with it. PHOTOPLUS will still be produced this fall at the Javits Center. NEW YORK - Emerald Expositions announced that as of today, Photo District News (PDN) will no longer publish content.

Photo District News (PDN) to Be Retired, Rangefinder Shifts to All-Digital Format We will share more information regarding PDN when the details are made public by Emerald Expositions. PDN, in its current form, is being retired our community and content isn’t going away it will just be servicing the community in different ways.' Our goal is to give our engaged and committed community the info they want when and where they want it. 'We extremely appreciative of the PDN community and photo community at large. Our source at Emerald Expositions also shared with us the following statement, paraphrased for clarity with permission: Rangefinder magazine, also owned by Emerald Expositions, will continue to be published “The PDN online content will not vanish, and we’re looking for ways to ensure that what content there is will continue to be easily accessible, but there won’t be new content,” said a spokesperson for Emerald Expositions, which operates business-to-business trade shows in the United States, including the PhotoPlus show in New York and the WPPI show in Las Vegas, the largest trade show for wedding and portrait photographers and filmmakers. 'PDN’s current owner, Emerald Expositions, has confirmed that the print edition of the magazine will no longer be published, and that no new content will be added to its online edition.
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Until Emerald Expositions publicly shares further details, we will stick to quoting only what Pro Photo Daily shared in its article: Thus, we’re now at a point where Emerald Expositions hasn’t publicly confirmed its closure but has confirmed the now on-the-record statements are indeed true. We have confirmed, via our aforementioned source at Emerald Expositions, that Pro Photo Daily’s quotes were from an Emerald Expositions spokesperson, but that they were said off-the-record and not meant to be shared at this time. This afternoon though, American Photography’s Pro Photo Daily published a statement from an Emerald Expositions spokesperson confirming the exact news we were told was off-the-record: that PDN would cease operation of its print magazine and no longer post new articles to PDN Online, but continue to publish Rangefinder Magazine as an online publication as well as continue both the PhotoPlus and WPPI tradeshows.Ī look at what will be the final six print issues of Photo District News. Curious to know the veracity of these claims, DPReview contacted PDN’s publisher, Emerald Expositions, last week and were connected with a high-level source who confirmed off-the-record that the details in the rumors were indeed true and an official statement would follow ‘in the next few weeks.’ Over the past few weeks, there have been rumblings behind-the-scenes that Photo District News (PDN) is shutting down. We’ve attached PDN’s entire statement at the conclusion of this article:
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Update (Wednesday, January 28, 2020): PDN has posted a statement confirming the previously published information.
