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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, Thomson directs the news operations of the Journal, WSJ.com, MarketWatch.com and Dow Jones Newswires. Before joining Dow Jones in December 2007, Thomson was editor of The Times of London where he presided over a significant expansion of its readership in print and on the Web. Prior to that, he was editor of the U.S. edition of the Financial Times (FT), taking prime editorial responsibility for the FT Group’s ambitious drive into the U.S. market. At the Financial Times, he also served as editor of the Weekend FT and as Foreign News Editor. Thomson spent nearly a decade as correspondent for the FT in Asia. From Beijing, he reported on social and economic reforms and on the crushing of the democracy movement in Beijing.

Born in Torrumbarry, Australia, Thomson started his newspaper career as a copy boy at The Herald in Melbourne and eventually moved to Sydney as a correspondent. There he was hired by The Sydney Morning Herald. Thomson is the author of The Judges: A Portrait of the Australian Judiciary (Allen & Unwin) and co-author of The Chinese Army (Weldon Owen).