NewsRx, LLC
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| Parent company | NewsRx, LLC |
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| Founded | 1984 |
| Founder | CW Henderson |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | Atlanta, Georgia |
| Distribution | Global |
| Imprints | BUTTER, NewsRx, VerticalNews |
| Official website | www |
NewsRx is a media and technology company focusing on digital media, printed media, news services, and knowledge discovery through its BUTTER platform. In 1995 the company was the world’s largest producer of health news. The company publishes 194 newsweeklies in health and other fields, which are distributed to subscribers and partners including Factiva, the Wall Street Journal Professional Edition, Thomson Reuters, ProQuest, and Cengage Learning.C W Henderson founded the company in 1984 and its first publication was AIDS Weekly. In the early 2000s, the firm added the imprint, VerticalNews to publish newsweeklies in non-health fields. Now based in Atlanta, Georgia, the company reports through its daily news service and publishes reference books through its partner, ScholarlyEditions. NewsRx launched its BUTTER platform in 2015, which is a knowledge discovery engine that delivers its content to academics, researchers, and professionals.
The idea for the first newsletter originated at an international conference on AIDS sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC). A staff member commented to CW Henderson on the need for a publication to condense the rapid rise in information about the disease. In 1984, Henderson created CW Henderson Publisher, which became NewsRx in 2004.
That same year, the company distributed its first journal, CDC AIDS Weekly, (which split into AIDS Weekly and Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA) to an international audience. The first subscriber was the Soviet Union. Other subscribers include physicians, educators, government agencies, and pharmaceutical companies.
The articles in AIDS Weekly discussed social issues of the disease to medical research. The newsweekly included “shorts” to explain as much as was known about unfolding information and events.
Before the World Wide Web, NewsRx coordinated with the National AIDS Information Clearinghouse to provide information on the disease. The CDC AIDS Weekly Infoline provided a list of upcoming AIDS seminars as well as names and addresses of over 65 AIDS periodicals published worldwide.
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