Okay. The Wall Street Journal spec­u­lat­ive fun keeps on com­ing. Nick Denton dishes his rumour in the com­ments after Deal­breaker outs it:

Nick Denton at 03:05 PM on 05÷16÷08 Reply by Email * @Phyllis Nefler: Rebekah Wade. But, yes. That was the rumor I was hear­ing. Inter­est­ingly, she was men­tioned earlier in the year as a pos­sible replace­ment for Col Allan at the Post. (Fiercely denied by Posties.) Wants out of The Sun. Tried for Times of Lon­don job. Well regarded within News Corp. But still more likely to be good for Post than Journal.

Port­fo­lio spec­u­lates on an out­side can­did­ate for the Robert Thom­son deputy role at the Wall Street Journal:

Lewis has many qual­it­ies of Murdoch’s ideal can­did­ate: busi­ness acu­men (he made waves as a deal reporter for the Fin­an­cial Times in the 1990s), impa­tience for change (the young­est editor of the Tele­graph ever, he has focused on drag­ging it into the digital age), famili­ar­ity with the Mur­doch ethos (he was busi­ness editor of the Sunday Times for three years) and a friend­ship with Thom­son (he was quoted prais­ing him in a recent New York Times profile).

So he’s per­fect. But Lewis says he hasn’t been approached about the job.