Research on Robert Thomson

Robert Thomson is an australian journalist and is the editor of the newspaper The Times.

Thomson was born in Melbourne, Australia on March 11, 1961.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.

Robert Thomson became Editor of the US edition of the Financial Times in the summer of 1998, taking editorial responsibility for the financial times information on the US Market, where the newspaper's circulation trebled in four years. Following on from this Thomson was named US Business Journalist of the year in 2001.

Soon after this Thomson left the financial times, and was appointed editor of the Times, on the 6th of March 2002, by Rupert Murdock.

Thomson is also favourite to become editor of the Wall Street Journal now that Rupert Murdoch is thought to have been successful in his $5bn (£2.5bn) takeover bid for its parent company, Dow Jones.Thomson, acted as one of Murdoch's closet advisers on the bid.

Prior to arriving in New York he was Editor of the Weekend Financial times UK and Assistant Editor of the Financial Times (FT). He also redesigned Weekend Financial times in late 1996 and that edition became the fastest growing newspaper in the UK market during 1997.

From 1994 to 1996, he was the Financial times Foreign News Editor in London, overseeing the paper’s extensive network of correspondents. Thomson had been a correspondent himself in Tokyo (1989-1994), and in Beijing (1985-1989), where he reported on the country’s economic and social reforms.

Thomson has all been author and editor of many books publish under penguin.

Under Thomson, The Times has paid more attention to international politics, business, financial markets and sport. In 2003 The Times launched a compact edition alongside the broadsheet format and one year later on November 1, 2004 The Times became 100% compact.