Robert James Thomson
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Robert James Dell'Oro Thomson 11 March 1961 Torrumbarry, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation | journalist, editor |
| Years active | 2013-present |
| Spouse(s) | Wang Ping |
| Children | Luke Thomson, Jack Thomson |
Robert James Dell'Oro Thomson (born 11 March 1961) is an Australian journalist and the Chief Executive of News Corp, a role he assumed in January 2013. He is the former managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, a post he held since May 2008. Chairman Rupert Murdoch named Thomson as the paper's new managing editor, succeeding Marcus Brauchli. He is former editor of The Times newspaper in London.
Thomson was born in Torrumbarry, Victoria and studied at Christian Brothers College, St Kilda and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. At school, he played Australian rules football and in his final years was a member of the First XVIII football team. In 1977, Thomson gained a profound interest in tennis, challenging all the locals in his home town of Elwood, Melbourne. He started as a journalist in 1979, when he joined The Herald in Melbourne, working as a finance and general affairs reporter before becoming the paper’s Sydney correspondent. In 1983, he was hired by The Sydney Morning Herald as a senior feature writer, and was nominated by the paper for Australian Journalist of the Year for his work examining the country’s judiciary. His grandmother's family name was Dell'Oro, as she came from Domodossola, in Northern Italy.
Robert Thomson became Editor of the US edition of the Financial Times in the summer of 1998, taking editorial responsibility for the FT Group's ambitious drive into the US market, where the newspaper's circulation trebled in four years. He was named US Business Journalist of the Year in 2001 by the influential trade journal TJFR/NewsBios.
He was in the running to become editor of the Financial Times when Richard Lambert stepped down from the role in 2001, but came second to Andrew Gowers. Soon afterwards, he was appointed editor of The Times of London on 6 March 2002.
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