Robert THOMSON

Chief Executive, News Corp
 

Robert Thomson is Chief Executive Officer of News Corp, a global, diversified media and information services company headquartered in New York, with activities in North America, Australia, Asia, Europe and beyond. Mr. Thomson served as Editor-in-Chief of Dow Jones & Company and Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal from 2008. Under his leadership, The Wall Street Journal became the largest circulation newspaper in the U.S., and he created a range of innovative digital and print products. Previously, Mr. Thomson was editor of The Times of London, presiding over expansion of its readership in print and on the Web. He was editor of the U.S. edition of the Financial Times, with editorial responsibility for the FT Group’s drive into the U.S. market, where the newspaper trebled its sales from 1998 - 2002. For his work with the FT, he was named U.S. Business Journalist of the Year in 2001 by the influential trade journal TJFR. Mr. Thomson earlier served as editor of the Weekend FT, which he relaunched with much sales success, and was the FT’s foreign news editor, overseeing its global network of journalists. He had himself been a correspondent in Tokyo and in Beijing. Mr. Thomson joined The Herald in Melbourne in 1979 as a copyboy, working his way up to Sydney correspondent. He is the author of The Judges: A Portrait of the Australian Judiciary (Allen & Unwin) and coauthor of The Chinese Army (Weldon Owen). He also edited a collection of satirical writing titled True Fiction (Penguin Books). Mr. Thomson was born in Torrumbarry, Australia, and is married with two sons.