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more about #robertthomson more comments → Mediahohoho: I'm pretty sure the herd in marketing could be thinned considerably. #wallstreetjournal more » TheBusinessGuy: For newspapers, what has always been unthinkable is changing with the times. From a stubborn refusal to standardize ad sizes to accommodate national ... more » naugahydeinplainsight: Meanwhile over on Slate, Daniel Gross argues reports of the newspaper industry's death are greatly exaggerated. A focus on plummeting circulation and... more » RollsRoyceRevenge: "We may be bought by an obnoxious Australian, for example." #wallstreetjournal more » random_play: The Laugh is back! #marissamayer more » jackbarber: This is the first time I've ever been on Marissa Mayer's side about anything. And I share her flabbergastery. I'd read about this earlier today and t... more » Claire Buoyant: Looks like the source and quote use the same text size to me. Did Google change that already? #marissamayer more » Meiyou Wenti: Like so much success today, Google is profiting off others' work. And most people see this as OK. So much for the work ethic. #marissamayer more » belltolls: I once got a really bad blowjob from The Journal. Forgive me for shopping around. #marissamayer more » Trai_Dep: I'm quite impressed that a WSJ editor even knows what Teh Google is. His full-time assistant who prints out his daily emails deserves a raise for fill... more » Nick Denton: I know we're not supposed to say anything nice about News Corporation. But what's the real story of the Wall Street Journal's move to Midtown? The lac... more » Pinekatz: "the newspaper's new "Hub," an area on the sixth floor with loads of flat-screen displays blaring TV news around the clock — the beating heart of th... more » ChillbearLatrigue: I understand that Thomson is also bringing back the tradition of "droit de cuissage" - the right of editors to take the new brides of employees' to th... more » Tremonius: I'm trying to think how I would intone with a straight face "I'm not worried. After all, I'm only going to lose maybe half my revenue." News Corpse ne... more » Pope John Peeps II: Look at that. Even his HANDS are jowly. Ewwww.ww. more » -
#mediawars
Marissa Mayer, Temptress of Google
It was a shocking clash of old and new media culture at a San Francisco Web summit, and Business Insider captured it on video: The editor of the Wall Street Journal calling a Google executive a media pimp. More » -
#internalmemos
Party Time at the WSJ (Please Send Pics)
A tipster just forwarded us the following email from the Wall Street Journal's Robert Thomson. There's a party on in mere MINUTES. And bring your party hats, because Rupert Murdoch's in the hizzouse! More » -
#synergy
Wall Street Journal Editor's Newsroom Dig At Fox News
The Wall Street Journal's managing editor Robert Thomson is close to News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch, personally and professionally. But that doesn't mean the Aussie is above somehow roughhouse ribbing of his corporate siblings. More » -
#newspaperwars
WSJ Scolds 'Confused' Simpletons at Times
The New York Times and Wall Street Journal are now in a full-blown pissing match over circulation. The name calling must be more comfortable for the newspapers than grappling with their real problems. More » -
#newspaperwars
NYT Slams WSJ Editor's 'Strange Analysis'
Wall Street Journal editor Robert Thomson sent out a staff memo this week crowing about beating the NYT in circulation growth. Now the NYT strikes back with its own sternly-worded response. This is catty war! More » -
#mediawars
WSJ Editor Slams 'Brain Dead' Times Readers
Gone are the days when the Wall Street Journal newsroom left brutal attacks on other media outlets to the Journal's rabid editorial page. Rupert Murdoch bought the paper to wage war, and it's happening. More » -
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#mediawars
Outrage: WSJ In Blog Duplicity Scandal
As any political campaign manager knows, sanctimonious attacks only invite a more outraged rebuttal. The Wall Street Journal's Google-slamming editor just learned how quickly anger boomerangs online. More » -
#thechart
Debunking the AP's Aggregation Aggravation
Online aggregators are financial vampires sucking the lifeblood out of the news business! You know — evil digital upstarts like the Wall Street Journal, CNN, and the New York Times. More » -
#mediacrack
Passing Off a Plagiarized Column As My Wedding Story Was Totally Unintentional
In your customary Monday media column: Another paper goes online-only, new magazines magically appear, a plagiarism scandal rocks Ocala, and a nice happy WSJ memo: More » -
#mediacrack
Newspapers Really Want That Bailout
In your servile Thursday media column: the scoop on Steve Bartelstein, the Singapore Judiciary blows, Eric Holder's willing to help newspapers die slower, which is good, because nobody wants to pay much for one: More » -
#withoutcomment
WSJ Editor: 'New Nomenclature Alone Will Not Generate News'
Wall Street Journal editor Robert Thomson urged his charges to work faster. To underline the point, some system that feeds WSJ stories to Dow Jones Newswires will now be called "URGENT" instead of "Speedy." More » -
#adsense
Google Sees Right Through Julia Allison
NonSociety, Julia Allison's experient in making macro bucks from microcelebrity, hasn't come up with a clever way of paying the bills. So she's running cheapo Google AdSense ads! Do they ever tell a story. More » -
#businessmedia
"Wall Street" Part of Wall Street Journal Increasingly Meaningless
Robert Thomson, the wily Aussie installed by Rupert Murdoch as editor of the Wall Street Journal, wants his newspaper to be big in Japan. And Europe. And Chicago. And Los Angeles. -
#wallstreetjournal
A Flack-Friendly Journal
When Robert Thomson's Wall Street Journal ran a story labeled "EMBARGOED!" in June, we held out hope the tag referred to the paper's in-house lingo for an exclusive to be kept off the Web until the last possible minute, not to the sort of embargoes where sources dictate when information may be published. But alas, it appears former managing editor Marcus Brauchli's noble defiance of public relations choreography is truly abandoned, as evidenced by the screenshot above and the factually identical stories in the Times and Journal this morning (about a Netflix-TiVo deal). Sometimes, even the Journal will submit to a flack's rules. And even add a slammer!
