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.