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How Journal Bigwig Broke Up With His Girlfriend In The Shower And Other Newspaper Lore
John Bussey-the Wall Street Journal's DC bureau chief and one of the candidates touted for the newspaper's vacant managing editor position-probably won't get the nod from the Journal's new owners. To be sure, he's won respect from Rupert Murdoch's lieutenants for masterminding the newspaper's election coverage; one of…
Civil War At The Wall Street Journal
Of all the cliques at the Wall Street Journal, the reporters and editors of the newspaper's Money & Investing team were most inclined to accommodate to the new régime put in place by Rupert Murdoch. They're more financially sophisticated than the average Journal reporter, and less precious; the head of the paper's…
Might Murdoch Skip A Generation At Wall Street Journal?
At a farewell party last week, some Journal staffers bitched that Marcus Brauchli, the managing editor pushed out by the paper's new owners, had sold his silence for a generous severance package. "It was disgusting," one told David Carr of the New York Times. But there was some more intriguing scuttlebutt from the…
Murdoch's Man At Journal A Big Ole Softie, Really
The Times profile of Rupert Murdoch's man at the Wall Street Journal, Robert Thomson, reinforces much of what was already known about the newsroom leader. He is good friends with the News Corp. chairman, charming to coworkers, a proven news chief and has responsibilities at the Journal that have long outstripped his…
Rupert Murdoch And Robert Thomson
News Corporation tycoon Rupert Murdoch is precisely thirty years older than his lieutenant at the Wall Street Journal, Robert Thomson. And a birthday is far from the only thing they have in common, as shown by this handy list from Intelligencer.
Refreshed By Blood
Marcus Brauchli got screwed, as this virtual gift on the outgoing Journal managing editor's Facebook page so aptly depicts. With his departure goes any pretense that Rupert Murdoch's takeover of the business newspaper will be anything but brutal, and Wall Street Journal reporters are already gossiping about the likely…
Who Will Be Journal's Pretend Managing Editor?
"Almost all agree that Robert Thomson, who was named publisher back in December when News Corp., took over the paper, will assume most of the control of the newsroom decisions, but that CEO Rupert Murdoch will need to pick someone from inside the paper to take on the ME slot to keep the reporters and lower-level…
Why It Has To Be Thomson Atop The Journal
A search is expected to begin soon for Marcus Brauchli's successor atop the Wall Street Journal newsroom, but there's no need to look far: It has to be Robert Thomson, the Journal's publisher and Rupert Murdoch's resident lieutenant. Murdoch already tried and failed once to placate the institutional culture at the …
Managing Editor Of Wall Street Journal To Resign After Murdoch Takeover
Rupert Murdoch's takeover of the Wall Street Journal has been swift and smooth-till now. Marcus Brauchli, the modernizer who sought to reconcile the storied business newspaper with its new owners, is reported to be quitting his position. Sources at the Journal tell Time that Brauchli is submitting a letter of…
The End Of The A-Hed
The Wall Street Journal, in its guided tour of the newspaper's layout, gives special mention to the A-Hed. This is the front-page feature, once found in the fourth column, now at the base of the third; a home for stories about cooking tips for roadkill or the disappearing holes in Swiss cheese; and the most prized…
Murdoch forgets a managing editor
And so it begins. When Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation completed its acquisition of the Wall Street Journal, the Australian-born mogul brought in a fellow countryman as the business newspaper's publisher. Don't think for a minute that this is an Australian takeover, like the one the 76-year-old mogul implemented at…
Flashback! New 'WSJ' Publisher: 'WSJ' Is Just A Cruddy Ford Taurus!
How excited is Robert Thomson to come to America to be the publisher of the Wall Street Journal? Possibly he has some mixed feelings! In a January, 2001 Business Week profile, Rupert Murdoch's boy actually savaged his new home. Thomson was at the FT then, and said that the Journal is best on cute little stories like…
Insanely Hot Biz Editor To Helm London 'Times'
Rupert Murdoch's buddy Robert Thomson is at last coming over to be the publisher of the Wall Street Journal in a few weeks—and taking his old job as editor of the Times of London will be the paper's current business editor, the smoking-hot James Harding. Harding, a former FT-er, had worked at the paper for just 18…
As expected, Robert Thomson, a News Corp. editor close to Rupert Murdoch, is taking over as publisher of the Wall Street Journal. What does this mean for the Valley? Well, that Thomson will be headed her soon on a goodwill tour to shake loose advertising dollars. Not much else. [WSJ]
We've been babbling about this coming moment for the last six months, SO PLEASE ENJOY IT: "News Corp. plans to announce Friday that company veteran Les Hinton will become chief executive of Dow Jones & Co., according to people familiar with the situation. Times of London editor Robert Thomson will become publisher…
Rupert Murdoch: Predator Or Super-Predator?
Times (of London) editor Robert Thomson today predicted that "his paper would start making money next year—for the first time in its modern history." Which will be just around the time that Rupert Murdoch brings him over here to run the Wall Street Journal. [Guardian]
Meet Robert Thomson, Rupert Murdoch's "go-to man" and the potential publisher of The Wall Street Journal should the Bancrofts accept Murdoch's bid for Dow Jones (which, say the Bancrofts, is contingent upon his accepting their proposals for a special board to safeguard editorial independence). [WSJ]
Rupert Murdoch: Hands Off China
We're at the epistolary stage of the Dow Jones story: Rupert Murdoch sent a letter to members of the Bancroft family offering them "a seat on News Corp.'s board and pledging to safeguard the editorial integrity of The Wall Street Journal and other Dow Jones editorial properties." The letter promoted Murdoch as a…
