:. back to News Releases Menu For immediate release November 4, 2005 For more information, contact: Jan M. Guszynski Marketing Director Tribune Media Services (312) 222-4717 jguszynski@tribune.com Tribune Media Services Launches Premium Health News Service Chicago, IL, November 4, 2005 — - Tribune Media Services (TMS) has announced the launch of Premium Health News Service, a weekly package of health-related content drawn from brand-name publications such as U.S. News & World Report, Psychology Today, Harvard Health Letters and others. Officials at TMS, the content-licensing division of Tribune Company, say the new service will be marketed to newspapers across the United States and internationally. The weekly package will contain feature articles, color photos, commentary and Q&A columns from experts at the Mayo Clinic and Harvard Health Letters. Sources also will include New Scientist and Fitness magazines. "In this new service, we are offering newspapers some of the most highly regarded and authoritative information on health today," said Mary Elson, Managing Editor at TMS. "We believe that this will give clients an impressive range of content--from longer, analytical pieces on medical advances to snappy, consumer-oriented shorts on diet and fitness. "We're creating an easy, one-stop-shopping approach to give newspaper readers comprehensive material that will improve their quality of life and also be entertaining to read," she said. The package will offer advice on an array of topics, including disease prevention, keeping kids healthy and navigating changes in health insurance. The package will also include commentary by Dr. Bernadine Healy of U.S. News & World Report, as well as the magazine's highly praised special reports on health and medicine. About Tribune Media Services Tribune Media Services (TMS) is a leading domestic and international provider of information and entertainment products for print, electronic and on-air media. It distributes television and movie listings and related editorial content under the TMS and Zap2it brands; syndicates and licenses comics, features and opinion columns; creates and syndicates a variety of online information products; licenses editorial content from national periodicals; and manages national advertising networks. Through its Knight Ridder/Tribune partnership, TMS also markets news and features, information graphics and multimedia content. Headquartered in Chicago, with offices in Los Angeles, New York, Glens Falls, N.Y., Dallas, Milwaukee, Amsterdam, London and Hong Kong, TMS is a subsidiary of Tribune Company (NYSE:TRB). For more information about TMS and its products and services, visit www.TMS.Tribune.com.

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