Robert Thomson

Robert Thomson has been the chief executive of News Corp USA since July 2013.

Prior to that, he was the editor-in-chief of Dow Jones & Company and managing editor of The Wall Street Journal for 5 years. He directed the global news operations of the print and digital Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, with an international news staff of over 2,000 journalists in more than 80 bureaus worldwide. Before joining Dow Jones in December 2007, Mr Thomson was editor of The Times of London where he presided over a expansion of its readership in print and on the Web - the audience of the Times Online grew from less than 1 million monthly to almost 13 million during his editorship. He was also editor of the US edition of the Financial Times, taking prime editorial responsibility for the FT Group's ambitious drive into the US market. For his work in building the FT's operations, in print and online, he was named as US Business Journalist of the Year in 2001 by the influential trade journal TJFR. Mr Thomson had been editor of the Weekend FT and assistant editor of the Financial Times, orchestrating a redesign of the Weekend FT in late 1996 - that edition became the fastest-growing newspaper in the UK market during 1997. He also oversaw the evolution of "How to Spend It" magazine into an award-winning monthly. From 1994 to 1996, he was the FT's foreign news editor in London, leading the paper's network of correspondents.

Mr Thomson had been a correspondent himself in Tokyo (1989-1994) where he witnessed the rise and fall of the "bubble economy"; and in Beijing (1985-1989) where he reported on the country's economic and social reforms, and the crushing of the democracy movement in Tiananmen Square.