Robert Thomson
Editor-in-Chief of Dow Jones & Company and Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal
Robert Thomson is the Editor-in-Chief of Dow Jones & Company and the Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal. As the senior news executive at Dow Jones, Mr Thomson directs the news operations of the Journal, WSJ.com, MarketWatch.com and Dow Jones Newswire.
Before joining Dow Jones in December 2007, Mr Thomson was editor of The Times of London where he presided over a significant 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. Prior to that, he was editor of the US edition of the Financial Times, taking prime editorial responsibility for the FT Group's drive into the US market, where the newspaper trebled its sales to almost 150,000.
