Actually, it might be more correct to say that the online publication never really went away in the first place. To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of its death had been greatly exaggerated.
The drama began in March when Scott Everett, DPR's General Manager, announced the site would be closing after twenty-five years of operation. It turned out that the publication had been fully owned all along by Amazon, and when that behemoth began a series of cost-cutting moves DPR turned out to be sadly expendable. But the site continued to maintain a presence on the web even after its announced shutdown date, ostensibly to work on archiving its contents. More recently, it has continued to publish articles and reviews.
The latest news, announced on Tuesday, is that DPR has now been acquired by Gear Patrol, a print and digital publication founded in 2007 that describes itself on its YouTube channel as "a team of creators, users and enthusiasts, hell-bent on building the definitive resource for discovering products and exploring the stories that surround them."
From what's been announced so far, it seems DPR will remain unchanged and continue exactly as it did under Amazon. That's welcome news for all photographers.
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