James Thomson (1 September 1852 – 4 August 1934) was an Australian journalist and newspaper owner.
[2] Thomson married at Trinity Church, East Melbourne, on 1 June 1878, Alice, second daughter of the late John Leyland, contractor, Liverpool.
[2] In the intervals of press work, he acted as Secretary to the Parliamentary Boards on State Schools, Safety Mining Cages, Wattle Bark, etc., and to the Royal Commission on the Tariff.
He was Secretary of Committees for the Melbourne International Exhibition of 1880-81, and Secretary to the Victorian Commissioners to the Calcutta and Colonial and Indian Exhibitions, the success of the Victorian Court at the latter owing much to his organising ability.
[2] Thomson left the Evening Standard when it merged with The Herald in 1894, and wrote articles about Western Australia for the Melbourne Age.