According to Wikipedia, a blog is a type of website or a part of website which is usually maintained by individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of event, or other material such as graphics or video.
In terms of this definiton, let me compare The Huffington Post and The New York Times. I believe The Huffington Post is an aggregated blog. It consists of a lot of posts uploaded by people with various professions such as filmmakers, professors, news coordinators, etc. They post stories in their interest fields and share their opinions with readers.
However, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are the websites of those two newspaper companies. These two "websites" were not established for internet users, but for their online readers. They offer their readers another distribution platform. The main content on these two websites is mostly same as the one in print version. They are also managed by the companies, and most of the posts are news articles of fact-based reporting written by a reporters or editors. So, I would like to conclude that two websites are just web-pages of a newspaper company rather than blogs.
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