On Wednesday, Robert Thomson, editor of the WSJ sent a memo to his staff stating that they will be making cuts in the editing department. Fifty positions will be lost, most of which will come from the South Brunswick, NJ editorial operations office, which was created in the wake of 9/11. Among the jobs lost are [...]
Robert Thomson will be stepping up to fill the void left by Marcus Brauchli last month. Rupert Murdoch named Thomson as managing editor of the WSJ and editor in chief of Dow Jones. Before this promotion, Thomson had been publisher of Dow Jones and had been editor of News Corp.’s The Times of London since [...]
Marcus Brauchli, managing editor of the Wall Street Journal, plans to leave after only 11 months on the job. His departure comes a mere 4 months after Murdoch’s take-over of the Journal. Some speculate that Brauchli tried to find a “middle path” between the paper’s old guard and Murdoch’s new vision, but had trouble doing so. [...]