Thomson's newspaper holdings once included The Times of London, The Globe and Mail in Toronto and an array of less distinguished smaller newspapers.
One way to distinguish a newspaper from a magazine or a journal is that most newspapers are printed on newsprint, a rougher and less stiff kind of paper than that used for magazines.
If there is anything that seems to distinguish a newspaper from other forms of corporate enterprise, it is that the newspaper possesses a kind of spirit or soul, an individuality as it were, apart and above the collective personalities of those who make its pages.
He invites distinguished scholars or newspaper columnists to address the crowd.
That argument, made by everyone from the state's governor to the editorial page of its largest newspaper, distinguished between the exacting standards of a professional state-run primary and the assumed informality of a party-run, volunteer-staffed caucus, in which the votes do not even officially count.
Al Wasat distinguished itself from other newspapers and government television by covering the opposition parties, particularly when they pressed the government over charges that senior officials were buying up beachfront property at rock-bottom prices.
So far, those who have spoken publicly on the issue have distinguished between the British newspaper division and the America-based company.
This is something that distinguishes the best newspapers, like the New York Times and the Guardian.
"These books are just stupendously enlarged newspaper stories," said Leon Wieseltier, literary editor of The New Republic, who argued that all of the books lacked the thoughtfulness, interpretative insight or literary quality that should distinguish books from newspapers or magazines.
In the aftermath of recent events, some excellent opinion pieces in newspapers have rightly distinguished between such majoritarian nationalism and the inclusive nationalism of Gandhi and Nehru.
