Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson is in the running to head the media company being split off from News Corp. that would include the paper, reports Mark Sweney of The Guardian in London.
“He was brought into the News Corp fold after getting to know Murdoch while he was US managing editor of the Financial Times. Murdoch made him editor of the Times in 2002 and entrusted him with the role of managing editor of the Wall Street Journal after the buyout of Dow Jones.
“Both are Australian, share the same 11 March birthday – although Thomson is 30 years younger – are married to Chinese women and have children of about the same age.”
Read more here.
Ken Brown of The Wall Street Journal is leaving the news organization. He is an…
Dow Jones News Fund President Brent W. Jones announced at the nonprofit journalism training organization’s…
Jillian Ward, managing editor for U.S. technology at Bloomberg News, sent the following note to…
Rick Berke, a co-founded and executive editor of STAT News, writes about the importance of…
Thomas Maxwell has joined Gizmodo as a tech reporter. He previously was at Business Insider covering…
Banking Times has acquired the domain name "The New Fiver" for an undisclosed amount, aiming…