Dow Jones Promotes Gerard Baker, Robert Thomson to Lead New Publishing Unit

A couple big changes at Dow Jones & Company are taking place. Effective January 1, 2013, Gerard Baker will be the editor-in-chief of Dow Jones and managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, and Robert Thomson will be CEO of News Corp’s publishing unit.

Baker was most recently the deputy editor-in-chief of the Journal, a role he has had since 2009. He is succeeding Thomson, who had been editor of Dow Jones and managing editor of the Journal for the past five years.

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