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32-895: The Northwest Arkansas Times was formerly owned by the Thomson Corporation , who sold it to Hollinger in 1995; Hollinger sold it on to Community Publishers Inc., owned by Jim Walton , in 1999. In 2005, WEHCO Media bought the Northwest Arkansas Times and the Benton County Daily Record from CPI. In 2009, WEHCO and Stephens Media merged their northwest Arkansas papers into a joint venture, Northwest Arkansas Newspapers. On Jan. 5, 2015, Northwest Arkansas Newspapers consolidated their four daily newspapers -- The Northwest Arkansas Times ( ISSN   1066-3355 ), Benton County Record , Springdale Morning News , and Rogers Morning News —with

64-471: A day as of 2017. The title celebrated its bicentenary on 25 January 2017. The Scotsman was conceived in 1816 and first launched on 25 January 1817 as a liberal weekly newspaper by lawyer William Ritchie and customs official Charles Maclaren in response to the "unblushing subservience" of competing newspapers to the Edinburgh establishment. These two plus John Ramsay McCulloch were co-founders of

96-418: A key company goal. "Except for its educational division, which still publishes a substantial number of conventional textbooks, Thomson had the good fortune to move into these businesses as customers were demanding electronic delivery of their information", according to a 3 July 2006 article. "In some markets, Thomson was able to move past other players who were more cautious about digital conversion." In 2003,

128-633: A larger reliance on information technology services and products. On 1 January 2004, Thomson adopted a new accounting standard, which required restatement of all prior periods. The company restated its financial reports accordingly. Members of the last board of directors of Thomson were as follows: David K.R. Thomson (chairman of the board since 2002), W. Geoffrey Beattie , Richard Harrington, Ron D. Barbaro , Mary Cirillo , Robert Daleo , Steven Denning, Maureen Darkes , Roger Martin , Vance Opperman , John M. Thompson , Peter Thomson, Richard Thomson and John A. Tory . The Thomson family owned 70% of

160-529: A publicly traded company in Canada. Roy Thomson's prolific endeavours in publishing earned him the hereditary title Lord Thomson of Fleet in 1964. Thomson's interests moved beyond publishing with the creation of Thomson Travel and acquisition of Britannia Airways in 1965 and 1971, and a foray into a consortium exploring the North Sea for oil and gas. Thomson used its oil profits to buy small newspapers in

192-487: A reported $ 435 million. Prometric now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of ETS. On 15 May 2007, the Thomson Corporation reached an agreement with Reuters to combine the two companies, a deal valued at $ 17.2 billion. On 17 April 2008, the new company was created under the name of Thomson Reuters. The chief executive officer of Thomson Reuters is Jim Smith, and the chairman is David Thomson , formerly of

224-758: A reshuffle of senior management in April 2012 during which John McLellan who was the paper's editor-in-chief was dismissed. Ian Stewart was previously editor of Edinburgh Evening News and remains as the editor of Scotland on Sunday . In 2012, The Scotsman was named Newspaper of the Year at the Scottish Press Awards. In 2006 the Barclay Brothers sold Barclay House to Irish property magnate Lochlann Quinn, and in 2013 Scottish video games maker Rockstar North , of Grand Theft Auto fame, signed

256-685: A subsidiary of the London Stock Exchange Group , known as Refinitiv ), Checkpoint, EndNote (now produced by Clarivate , an independent company), Derwent World Patents Index (now produced by Clarivate), SAEGIS (now produced by Clarivate), MicroPatent , Aureka (now owned by Clarivate), Faxpat , OptiPat , Just Files , Faxpat , OptiPat , Just Files , Corporate Intelligence , InfoTrac (now owned by Cengage ), Delphion , Arco Test Prep (now owned by Cengage), Peterson's Directories (now owned by Cengage), NewsEdge , TradeWeb , Web of Science (now produced by Clarivate) and

288-580: Is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh . First established as a radical political paper in 1817, it began daily publication in 1855 and remained a broadsheet until August 2004. Its parent company, National World , also publishes the Edinburgh Evening News . It had an audited print circulation of 8,762 for July to December 2022. Its website, Scotsman.com, had an average of 138,000 unique visitors

320-722: The Independent of St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1952. He was told by the UK Government that to qualify for a peerage, in keeping with other press barons in London, he would have to reside in the UK. Accordingly, he moved to Edinburgh and invited newspaper owners to sell to him. In this expansion in the United Kingdom the first to come forward and be bought was The Scotsman in 1953. He had no experience of television but saw

352-1012: The Arden Shakespeare (now published by Bloomsbury Publishing ). Thomson formerly owned Jane's Information Group , now owned by Montagu Private Equity . These information sources are produced by the many companies of Thomson, including West Publishing , Thomson Financial , ISI (now owned by Clarivate), Thomson Gale (now owned by Cengage), Dialog Corporation (now owned by Clarivate), Brookers, Carswell , CCBN, Course Technology (now owned by Cengage), Gardiner-Caldwell, IHI, Lawbook Co, Wadsworth (now owned by Cengage), Thomson CompuMark (now owned by Clarivate) and Sweet & Maxwell . Thomson Reuters New Zealand Limited has been publishing and updating information on New Zealand law since 1910, formerly as John Friend Ltd, to Brooker and Friend Ltd, to Brookers, to Thomson Brookers'. Thomson had divested many of its traditional media assets – or combined them with digital products – and had moved toward

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384-583: The Society for News Design (SND) the World's Best Designed Newspaper for 1994. In December 2005, The Scotsman along with its sister titles owned by The Scotsman Publications Ltd was acquired, in a £160   million deal, by Johnston Press , a company founded in Scotland and at the time one of the top three largest local newspaper publishers in the UK. Ian Stewart has been the editor since June 2012, after

416-536: The West Publishing Company , a legal information provider in Eagan, Minnesota . In recent years, Thomson provided much of the specialised information content the world's financial, legal, research and medical organizations rely on every day to make business-critical decisions and drive innovation. While it remained a publishing company, early and aggressive investment in electronic delivery had become

448-818: The Northwest Arkansas edition of the Democrat-Gazette , creating the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette , with the former separate local papers serving as the local news section inside the newspaper. The Democrat was founded on June 14, 1860, and operated under that name until 1893. The paper was then renamed to the Fayetteville Daily Democrat . In 1911, it was purchased by Jay Fulbright and upon his death in 1923 passed to his wife, Roberta Fulbright . She became president and publisher, renaming

480-693: The Scotsman shared a building with the Caledonian Mercury newspaper. In 1860, The Scotsman obtained its own purpose built office on Cockburn Street in Edinburgh designed in the Scots baronial style by the architects Peddie & Kinnear . This backed onto their original offices on the Royal Mile. The building bears the initials "JR" for John Ritchie , the founder of the company. On 19 December 1904, they moved to much larger new offices at

512-629: The Thomson Corporation bought the Chilton automotive assets . Also in 2003, Thomson acquired the software company Elite Information Group and medical education company Gardiner-Caldwell. Also in 2003, Thomson sold its medical magazine publishing units to Advanstar Communications. Thomson also acquired the publisher Techstreet. In 2004, Thomson acquired Tradeweb . In late 2004, the company sold its Thomson Media group to Investcorp . The B2B publishing group, which features such titles as American Banker , National Mortgage News , and The Bond Buyer ,

544-759: The Thomson Corporation through a family-owned entity, the Woodbridge Company , based in Toronto . (Along with 70% of Thomson Corporation, Woodbridge also owns a 40% stake in CTVglobemedia , which now owns the Globe and Mail daily newspaper in Toronto and CTV , Canada's largest commercial TV network.) David K.R. Thomson and his brother, Peter Thomson , became co-chairmen of Woodbridge after their father's death. The Scotsman The Scotsman

576-640: The Thomson Corporation. Although it was officially a Canadian company and remained Canadian owned, Thomson was run from its operational headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut , in the United States. The Thomson Corporation grew from a single Canadian newspaper, the Timmins Daily Press , acquired in 1934 by Roy Thomson (later to become 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet), into a global media concern. Thomson acquired his first non-Canadian newspaper,

608-595: The Thomson Corporation. Over the years, the company has withdrawn from its holdings in the oil and gas business, the travel industry and department stores. When Kenneth Thomson took over from his father Roy in 1976, the company was worth about $ 500 million. At Kenneth's death in June 2006, the company was valued at about $ 29.3 billion. In 1978, the acquisition of Wadsworth Publishing provided Thomson with its first entry into specialised information, college textbooks and professional books. (In 2007, Thomson Learning, including

640-785: The United States, starting with the acquisition of Brush-Moore Newspapers in 1967 for $ 72 million, at the time the largest sale of newspapers. By the end of the 1970s, Thomson Newspapers' circulation in the United States had surpassed the 1 million mark. In 1974, it was rumored to be planning a takeover of Speidel Newspapers . The Thomson Organization was reorganised into the International Thomson Organization in 1978 in order to move its operating base from Britain to Canada, so that it would not be subject to British monopolies legislation, foreign‐exchange controls and dividend limitation. The International Thomson Organization and Thomson Newspapers merged in 1989, creating

672-482: The Wadsworth imprint, was sold and renamed as Cengage Learning .) Starting in the mid-1990s, Thomson invested further in specialised information services (but this time providing them in digital format) and began selling off its newspapers. That was about the time Richard J. Harrington, an accountant, became chief executive officer of the company. One of the first moves came when Thomson spent $ 3.4 billion to acquire

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704-574: The company. When Kenneth Thomson died in June 2006, control of the family fortune passed on to David K.R. Thomson under a plan put together decades earlier by company founder Roy Thomson . "David, my grandson, will have to take his part in the running of the organisation and David's son, too," Roy wrote in his 1975 autobiography. "With the fortune that we will leave to them go also responsibilities. These Thomson boys that come after Ken are not going to be able, even if they want to, to shrug off these responsibilities." The Thomson family controlled

736-503: The lease, causing Johnston Press group to move out in June 2014. Johnston Press have downsized to refurbished premises at Orchard Brae House in Queensferry Road, Edinburgh, a move which was quoted as saving the group £1million per annum in rent. The newspaper backed a 'No' vote in the referendum on Scottish independence . In November 2018, Johnston Press filed for administration . Shortly after filing for administration,

768-556: The paper to the Northwest Arkansas Times in 1937. Upon Fulbright's death in 1953, control of the paper passed to her son-in-law, Hal Douglas. This Arkansas -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Thomson Corporation The Thomson Corporation was one of the world's largest information companies. It was established in 1989 following a merger between International Thomson Organization and Thomson Newspapers. In 2008, it purchased Reuters Group to form Thomson Reuters . The Thomson Corporation

800-589: The profits it made in the US and successfully founded Scottish Television in 1957, locating its headquarters and studios in the Theatre Royal, Glasgow . He founded the Thomson Organization in 1959. In the 1960s, Thomson's UK publishing realm expanded to include Thomson Publication (UK), a consumer magazine and book publishing house, and The Times . In 1965, Thomson Newspapers, Ltd. was formed as

832-472: The proposed sale of its Thomson Learning assets. In May 2007, Thomson Learning was acquired by Apax Partners and subsequently renamed Cengage Learning in July. The Thomson Learning brand was used to the end of August 2007. Subsequently, on 15 October 2007, Educational Testing Service (ETS) finalized acquisition of Thomson's Prometric . Thomson sold its global network of testing centres in 135 countries, for

864-507: The top of Cockburn Street, facing onto North Bridge, designed by Dunn & Findlay (Findlay being the son of the then owner). This huge building had taken three years to build and also had connected printworks on Market Street (in 2024 the City Art Centre). The printworks connected below road level direct to Waverley station in an efficient production line. In 1953 the newspaper was bought by Canadian millionaire Roy Thomson who

896-459: The venture. The paper was pledged to "impartiality, firmness and independence". The price was originally 6d plus 4d tax. After the abolition of newspaper stamp tax in Scotland in 1855, The Scotsman was relaunched as a daily newspaper priced at 1d and a circulation of 6,000 copies. The fledgling paper was originally based at 257 High Street on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. Until 1860

928-485: Was active in financial services, healthcare sectors, law, science and technology research, as well as tax and accounting sectors. The company operated through five segments (2007 onwards): Thomson Financial , Thomson Healthcare , Thomson Legal, Thomson Scientific and Thomson Tax & Accounting. Until 2007, Thomson was also a major worldwide provider of higher education textbooks, academic information solutions and reference materials. On 26 October 2006, Thomson announced

960-549: Was in the process of building a large media group. The paper was bought in 1995 by David and Frederick Barclay for £85 million. They moved the newspaper from its Edinburgh office on North Bridge , which is now an upmarket hotel , to modern offices in Holyrood Road designed by Edinburgh architects CDA, near the subsequent location of the Scottish Parliament Building . The daily was awarded by

992-655: Was renamed SourceMedia . In 2005, Thomson acquired medical education company Physicians World. In October 2006, the company confirmed it would sell the Thomson Learning market group in three parts. The first part, corporate education and training (NETg), has agreed to be sold to Skillsoft for $ 285 million. Apax announced its acquisition of Thomson's higher education business on 11 May 2007, for $ 7.5 billion in cash assets. In 2007, Thomson sold Thomson Medical Education (including Physicians' World and Gardiner-Caldwell) to private equity firm ABRY Partners. The group

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1024-560: Was renamed KnowledgePoint360. Some of Thomson's brands are better known than the company name itself. Its brands include Thomson ONE , Westlaw , FindLaw , BARBRI , Pangea3 , Physician's Desk Reference (now published digitally as the Prescriber's Digital Reference ), RIA , Thomson Tax and Accounting ( tax and accounting software and services for accountants), Creative Solutions, Quickfinder, DISEASEDEX (now merged with IBM Watson Health ), DrugREAX, Medstat, Thomson First Call (now

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