Robert Thomson

Robert Thomson Since January 2013 he has been chief executive of News Corp.( NWSA ) 

Thomson started work as a copyboy at The Herald (now the Herald Sun) in Melbourne in 1979. In 1983, he became senior feature writer for The Sydney Morning Herald, and two years later became Beijing correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald as well as the Financial Times. Thomson then became a Tokyo correspondent for the Financial Times in 1989. Thomson was appointed the Financial Times foreign news editor in 1994 and in 1996 became editor of the Financial Times weekend edition While at Sydney Morning Herald, Thomson wrote a series on Australian judges, which was published as a book in 1987, The Judges: A Portrait of an Australian Judiciary. In 1998, Thomson became U.S. managing editor of the Financial Times

In 2007, Thomson was one of the first media executives to criticize Google and big tech for the disaggregation of content and publication of falsehoods, and to pressure them for a higher share of advertising value.He has been known to use alliterative expressions to call out those companies, such as platforms for "the fake, the faux and the fallacious," and "tech tapeworms."Thomson called for new terms of trade for tech platforms to allow viable business models for creators and to benefit broader society