The Sunday Times editor Emma Tucker is leaving the newspaper to run the Wall Street Journal, amid plans to make the weekend title work more closely with the Times.
Rupert Murdoch’s News UK has already started combining some sections of the Times and the Sunday Times to create a seven-day operation, after convincing the government to remove all legal barriers to a merger. For now they remain separate outlets, with the company pledging to “retain their unique identities, sharing resources where it makes sense to do so”.
