The first issue of the Be Star Newsletter was published in January, 1980 under the editorship of Mercedes Jaschek, who continued as Editor through 1987 (see Jaschek, M. 1990, Be Star Newsletter, 22, 5). Since then, Geraldine Peters acted as Editor-in-Chief, with production done initially by Technical Editor Dietrich Baade at the European Southern Observatory headquarters in Garching, Germany. Volume 28 of the Be Star Newsletter marked the first issue of the electronic edition of the journal, which was produced together with the paper edition by Technical Editor Douglas R. Gies at the Georgia State University Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy. From Volume 34 to Volume 40, the electronic edition was produced by David McDavid, at the University of Virginia. From Volume 41 onwards this was supposed to be done by Thomas Rivinius at the European Southern Observatory and Alex Carciofi at the Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas at the Universidade de São Paulo, with Douglas R. Gies will continuing as Technical Editor of the paper edition. However, the website suffered a cyber attack and no newsletters were published following Volume 41 until the website was resurrected in January 2024, with Petr Kurfurst (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic) as the new Newsletter editor.