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Robert Thomson

Australian journalist and editor
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March 11, 1961, Echuca, Australia (age 63)
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Robert Thomson (born March 11, 1961, Echuca, Australia) is an Australian journalist, newspaper editor, and executive who became the first non-British editor (2002–08) of The Times of London. He later served as managing editor (2008–13) of The Wall Street Journal before becoming CEO (2013– ) of News Corporation. Thomson was the son of a bar owner who later became a newspaper proofreader. The young Thomson entered journalism at age 17, working as a copyboy and then cadet on The Herald in Melbourne (now the Melbourne Herald Sun) and later at the Sydney Morning Herald. In 1985, when he was 24, ...(100 of 532 words)

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