Robert James Thomson (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert James Thomson (born 11 March 1961) is an Australian journalist and the managing editor of the Wall Street Journal. He is former editor of The Times newspaper in London, England. On 20 May 2008 News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch named Thomson as the paper's new managing editor, succeeding Marcus Brauchli. Thomson holds both the managing editor position as well as the position of editor-in-chief of Dow Jones & Co., the News Corp. unit that publishes the Journal, according to News Corp. Thomson was born in Melbourne, Australia and studied at Christian Brothers College, St Kilda and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.