American media and technology company
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.[1] The company publishes 194 news weeklies in health and other fields, which are distributed to subscribers and partners including LexisNexis, Factiva, the Wall Street Journal Professional Edition, Thomson Reuters, ProQuest, and Cengage Learning.[2][3] C. W. Henderson founded the company in 1984 along with its first publication, AIDS Weekly. [4] In the early 2000s, the firm added the imprint, VerticalNews, to publish news weeklies in non-health fields.[5] Now based in Atlanta, Georgia, the company reports through its daily news service and publishes reference books through its partner, ScholarlyEditions.[2][6] In 2015, NewsRx launched the BUTTER platform, a knowledge discovery engine that delivers its content to academics, researchers, and professionals.[3]
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- ^ "NewsRx's VerticalNews Division Launches 86 Titles in Tech, Science and General Interest." Newsletter on Newsletters September 10, 2008 http://www.thefreelibrary.com/NewsRx's+VerticalNews+division+launches+86+titles+in+tech,+science...-a0186874438
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