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Wednesday, February 10, 1999 Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs Medical Economics Co. Launches PDR.net The Medical Economics Company, publisher of the Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR), has announced that it has launched PDR.net, a healthcare resource offering practicing physicians free access to the PDR and other key resources. In addition to the PDR library of reference works, the website offers access to more than 8,000 full-text articles from Medical Economics Company publications including Medical Economics, Patient Care, Contemporary OB/GYN, Contemporary Pediatrics, Contemporary Urology, and IM Internal Medicine, plus free searching of the 11+ million abstracts from the Medline, Aidsline and Cancerlit databases, daily medical news from Reuters, and CareerPulse healthcare career opportunities. "By bringing our brands to the Web, we are offering innovative interactive tools to healthcare and medical professionals who have relied on Medical Economics Company as an important source of information for more than 75 years," said Curtis Allen, CEO of Medical Economics Company. "For example, PDR.net features a multi-drug interaction report that enables users to determine whether certain drugs interact with one another or are contraindicated." Medical Economics Company is a leader in healthcare information publishing and communications, providing magazines, directories, newsletters, databases, and new media products and services to healthcare professionals, institutions, and consumers. Medical Economics Company (Montvale, NJ) is part of the Thomson Healthcare Information Group, a division of The Thomson Corporation. Times Community News to Become a Division of the Los Angeles Times Times Community News, a unit of Times Mirror's California Community News subsidiary, will become a division of the Los Angeles Times on April 4, The Times announced Wednesday. The administrative change involves about 350 editorial, advertising and support staff employees of Times Community News. California Publishing Services, the production and distribution arm of California Community News, will continue to operate as a separate and autonomous Times Mirror corporate unit. This change does not affect the staffing or operation of Times departments. "This will increase the efficiency of our community news operation, improve coordination with Times departments and enhance our ability to provide the highest-quality community news to our readers," said Robert G. Magnuson, senior vice president, regions, and president of Times Community News. "Under the leadership of General Manager Judee Kendall and Editor Bill Lobdell, Times Community News has become the best community news operation in the business. We are proud and delighted to welcome them to The Times." Times Community News publishes 16 community publications that are distributed with The Times in specific areas across Southern California. The publications include eight Our Times sections, the Costa Mesa Daily Pilot, the Glendale, Burbank and Foothill newspapers, the Pasadena Weekly, and the Westside, South Bay and San Gabriel zoned weeklies. With the exception of five Times Community News finance employees who will move to Times Mirror Square, employees on these publications will continue to work out of their current facilities. Slaton White Promoted to Editor, Field & Stream Magazine The proverbial fishing rod is being passed on at Field & Stream. Slaton White, 48, has been named Editor, replacing Duncan Barnes, 63, who leaves the magazine's chief editorial post to become Editor-at-Large. White, formerly managing editor, becomes the thirteenth editor since the magazine was founded in 1895. "I am honored to take the helm of this great American magazine," White said. "For more than a century, Field & Stream has informed and entertained generations of hunters and fishermen with a compelling editorial product. More important as the premier magazine in its field, Field & Stream has a well-deserved reputation as a leader in conservation and sporting ethics. We intend to maintain this position as we move into the next century." "Slaton White is the right person to begin the process of leading Field & Stream into the next century," says Barnes. "I look forward to more time in the field reporting and working on special projects for the magazine. One of the most important things I can do as Editor-at-Large is to spread the word that the resource must always come first, because without sound stewardship of our land and waters, there wouldn't be any hunting and fishing." Barnes was named Editor of Field & Stream in 1981. Prior to that, he wrote about the outdoors for the St. Petersburg (Florida) Times and for Sports Illustrated, and was editorial director of the Winchester Press. Slaton White joined Field & Stream in 1981 as an Associate Editor. He became Senior Editor in 1982, Assistant Managing Editor in 1990, and was named Managing Editor in 1995. Over the years he has handled a number of diverse editorial assignments, including redesigning the magazine's regional coverage, directing special editorial sections, writing a regular monthly column on four-wheel-drive vehicles, launching Field & Stream Radio (a one-hour nationally syndicated radio show), and establishing the Field & Stream Website. Los Angeles Times Announces Oscars Feature The Los Angeles Times website is providing inside scoop on this year's Oscars. At latimes.com site visitors will find a photo gallery of the nominees, discussion groups, trailers of nominated movies/actors/actresses, links to movie reviews, critics' picks, Oscar's Trivia and an Oscar's timeline highlighting special moments in Oscar history. Movie experts can study up on this year's Oscars and then enter the latimes.com Oscar Awards Contest. Winners may be eligible to win gift certificates from reel.com and collectable movie books and t-shirts from moletown.com. Throughout the evening, latimes.com will post the winners along with photos of the night's festivities, celebrity interviews and polls that agree or disagree with the selection of winners. Click here to return to the homepage of The Write NewsTM Click here to subscribe to our free weekly email newsletter.  www.writenews.com Copyright © 1997-2007 by Writers Write, Inc. 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