Robert Thomson, CEO of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., which was sued last month by Donald Trump, found a crafty way to bring Trump back into the conversation Tuesday. The feisty and puckish exec, whose signature communiqués often include alliteration and high-flown language, cited Trump in the company's fiscal fourth quarter earnings report. Trump's suit was prompted by an enterprise report in News Corp's Wall Street Journal exploring ties between the president and convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Thomson ...

Robert Thomson, a close confidante of Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch for decades, has been re-upped as CEO of News Corp. for another five years, through June 2030. Among Thomson's accomplishments as CEO, he has recently shepherded the company to its four most profitable years. He also steered the sale of Foxtel to DAZN last April and forged pacts with a number of tech platforms, notably OpenAI. The exec has overseen the media company, whose portfolio spans print, digital and book publishing, since 2013. Among t ...