Still feeling the fallout at the WSJ

The New York Observer reports that for the past two weeks, Robert Thomson, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, has been busy not being the paper’s editor.
It hasn’t been easy. Since April 22, when Marcus Brauchli resigned as the newspaper’s managing editor, Thomson, who was forced to describe himself in an interview with The New York Times as the interim “head of content” for the paper, has had nine meetings (in person and on conference calls) to soothe the fraying nerves of his orphaned editorial staff.
“There was a real panic here for a few days when Marcus left,” said one reporter.
Thomson’s paternity tour has had mixed results, which Thomson is among the first to admit.
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