October 1, 2008:
- In a memo to his editorial staff, Robert Thomson, managing editor of The Wall Street Journal and Editor-in-Chief of Dow Jones & Company, described the efforts of the Journal, WSJ.com, and MarketWatch to cover the recent financial crisis "extraordinary in its breadth and quality."
Thomson said that newsstand sales of the paper have surged as have visitors to its WSJ.com and MarketWatch.com.
He called the collective reach of Dow Jones' news organizations "unprecedented" in business journalism.- Robert Thomson, managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, announced two changes to the paper's prestigious Page One staff.
Mr. Thomson named Mike Allen, a 22-year veteran of the paper, to the new position of Page One Project Editor. Mr. Allen's job will be to work with the paper's many bureaus to nurture investigative reporting. Mr. Allen has been Page One's deputy editor.The new Deputy Editor is Alex Martin, who has been deputy of the Journal's Marketplace section since 2005, when he joined the paper from Newsday. "In his new role, Alex will work closely with Mike Williams in running Page One: vetting (short) proposals; managing the editing of leders, extras and aheds; and supervising the daily evolution of the page," Mr. Thomson wrote in a staff memo.
- The Independent -- September 22, 2008: "I worked with Robert Thomson at The Times for five-and-a-half years before he asked me to launch WSJ (the Wall Street Journal magazine), and I was thrilled because he is a brilliant editor: very trusting and encouraging. Watching someone like him at the height of their editing powers is really inspiring." -- Tina Gaudoin, editor, WSJ.
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