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James Murdoch Resigns As Director Of News International’s UK Newspaper Boards

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James Murdoch, son of News Corp head Rupert Murdoch, has resigned as director of News International’s News Group Newspapers Limited (which publishes The Sun) and Times Newspapers Limited, (which oversees both The Times and Sunday Times). The younger Murdoch has also faced pressure to step down as chairman of satellite broadcasting company BSkyB, in which News Corp owns a controlling stake.

He remains News Corp’s deputy chief operating officer.

News Group Newspapers Limited is the former publisher of News of the World, which shuttered amid allegations of phone hacking and remains the center of an ongoing investigation.

RELATED: Rupert And James Murdoch Don’t Actually Like Each Other?

The London Evening Standard spells out what this means as far as the Murdoch family is concerned:

His decision means no member of the Murdoch family now sits on the boards of the flagship UK papers. Rupert Murdoch used to be a director of NGN and TNL but stepped down after his son took over as NI executive chairman in 2007. James Murdoch has also quit at least one other subsidiary, News International Holdings.

h/t London Evening Standard

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  • Farnsworth

    That took way too long. Still though, good riddance you parasite

  • Anonymous

    Blimey !

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Wost of all, Jonathan May-Bowles is in que for the directorship.

  • joe

    wow–can you imagine if these was going on at NBS or CNN>>>>>>>
    these conservatives has the worst crimes against mankind and all their sheep do is come out en masse and defend them–BY TRYING TO FIND SOMETHING A LIBERAL DID IN THE LAST 50 YEARS…

    COME ON CONSERVATIVES…YOU ARE BEING DUPED….
    YOUR LEADERS ARE TAKING MONEY FROM A FEW BILLION DOLLAR MULTINATIONALS FOR POWER AND GREED…
    -BIG PHARMA–MAKING MORE MONEY THAN 495 OF THE TOP 500 COMPANIES..WE TAKE SO MUCH PROZAC–WE FIND TRACES IN OUR RIVERS FROM OUR URINE..
    -PRIVATE COLLEGES-BECOMING DIPLOMA MILLS RAKING IN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND PAYING INTO POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS -TAX PAYER MONEY IE GRANTS AND LOANS
    -SMALL TOWN AMERICA-GIVING GRANTS AND LOANS TO BOGUS START UP THAT FAIL ALMOST 100% AND THE MONEY IS FUNNELED INTO POLITICAL COFFERS-IT IS LIKE 10,000 MINI SOLYNDRAS
    -BIG CORP AMERICA HAS KILLED THE FAMILY FARMER-TOOK OVER THEIR FARMS AND EITHER GROW FOOD HIGH IN CHEMICAL ALTERATION-OR JUST SOLD THE LAND TO REAL ESTATE SPECULATORS..
    -THEY HAVE KILLED SMALL BUSINESS AND DOWNTOWNS ALL ACROSS AMERICA
    -THEY POLLUTE OUR AIR AND OUR WATER WHILE GIVING POOR WORKING CONDITION FOR OUR CITIZENS AND PAY OFF CONGRESSMEN TO KILL REGULATION…..
    THEY GIVE US CHEAP FOOD TO MAKE US FAT-GIVE US CHEAP GOODS MADE BY SLAVE LABOR TO KEEP US MATERIALISTIC AND CONTENT
    AND THEY JUSTIFY OUR CHEAP LABOR FOR IT…
    and in the end-they try to kill education so we do not see it..
    PLATOS CAVE FOLKS—COME OUT INTO THE LIGHT~

  • http://gregingleright.weebly.com/ Greg

    Might I respectfully suggest you improve on your delivery? The overuse of “CAPS” combined with the breathless hyperbole transform reasonable positions into something that seems unreasonable. Cheers!

  • one pissed off liberal

    COMON LIBERALS …WAKE UP!   I SAW A PHOTO OF OBAMA THE OTHER DAY READING A BOOK CALLED “HOW TO SERVE MAN”!!!!!!!

    IT WAS A COOK-BOOK!!!!!!!!   aAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHHAAAAAAHHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  • one pissed off liberal

    Also, on a less energetic note, it appears that small business tends to do pretty well in conservative leaning areas of the country versus liberal, even more so in “right to work” states…who are always conservative bastions.

    So judging from your departure from truth on that point,. I’m guessing the rest of you rant is BS as well.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3VUFTUN5223ITCWO7CHS2CI44A David

    What does your comment have to do with James?

  • Anonymous

    Interesting development; Hugh Grant is also now on record claiming another news organization hacked his phone systems, not a murdoch owned entity.  I wonder why that hacker hasn’t been headlined?

    OT but NBC needs to issue a formal apology now to Bachmann, more and more folks are calling for it. 

  • joe

    really?
    well i just got back from paris..guess what–at least 2-6 REAL small businesses -block after block–mile after mile..
    same in LA and New York…
    now pick any small town in Ohio, Indiana, KY whatever..you have chains, chains and  more chains..
    you people need to stop lying..downtowns are dead in small towns–they are emtpy..
    and if i am wrong…
    THEN SHOW ME ONE SMALL CONSERVATIVE TOWN WITH A FLOURISING DOWNTOWN–THE HEART OF A COMMUITY..
    you are a liar..

  • joe

    if you are calling the truth hyperbole–I AM GUILTY….
    i am still waiting for anyone to prove me wrong on anything..
    you call me names and what ever–yet not one person has proved me wrong–not once..
    so call it what you want–i speak the truth…

  • joe

    one more thing Greg..
    1. i always sucked in English even though i have a BA in Liberal Arts..
    2. my skills are in Math and Business
    3. i do not pretend to me a literarry giant…
    4. i speak the truth and most people know what i say is true–they just do not know what to do.
    I wish I was more proficient in my ‘presentation’….but i cannot be great at all things..
    if i were–I would be president (hint -Obama is pretty damn good at a lot of things)
    peace~

  • Anonymous

    Next stop for James, the slammer.

  • Anonymous

    YOUR LEADERS ARE TAKING MONEY FROM A FEW BILLION DOLLAR MULTINATIONALS FOR POWER AND GREED…

    So Obama is into power and greed?

    -BIG PHARMA–MAKING MORE MONEY THAN 495 OF THE TOP 500 COMPANIES..WE TAKE SO MUCH PROZAC–WE FIND TRACES IN OUR RIVERS FROM OUR URINE..

    And somehow this is Big Pharma’s fault?

    -PRIVATE COLLEGES-BECOMING DIPLOMA MILLS RAKING IN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND PAYING INTO POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS -TAX PAYER MONEY IE GRANTS AND LOANS

    Are you saying that no public colleges have students using taxpayer money?

    -SMALL TOWN AMERICA-GIVING GRANTS AND LOANS TO BOGUS START UP THAT FAIL ALMOST 100% AND THE MONEY IS FUNNELED INTO POLITICAL COFFERS-IT IS LIKE 10,000 MINI SOLYNDRAS

    Take it up with congress.

    -BIG CORP AMERICA HAS KILLED THE FAMILY FARMER-TOOK OVER THEIR FARMS AND EITHER GROW FOOD HIGH IN CHEMICAL ALTERATION-OR JUST SOLD THE LAND TO REAL ESTATE SPECULATORS..

    I’ll give you this one.

    -THEY HAVE KILLED SMALL BUSINESS AND DOWNTOWNS ALL ACROSS AMERICA

    Who is “they”?

    -THEY POLLUTE OUR AIR AND OUR WATER WHILE GIVING POOR WORKING CONDITION FOR OUR CITIZENS AND PAY OFF CONGRESSMEN TO KILL REGULATION…..

    Our water and air is cleaner than it has ever been.

    THEY GIVE US CHEAP FOOD TO MAKE US FAT-GIVE US CHEAP GOODS MADE BY SLAVE LABOR TO KEEP US MATERIALISTIC AND CONTENTAND THEY JUSTIFY OUR CHEAP LABOR FOR IT…

    Don’t eat the food or take the job.

  • Anonymous

    Third graders know how to capitalize.

  • CarmanK

    Small business asked for the health care reform because they wanted to treat their employees with fairness while the insurance companies bilked them impunity. The right to work states have done nothing for the workers in those states. They are also the states that have the highest level of poverty across the country, which means the people starve and go homeless, or they get “public assistance”. Either way, the people get taken while the international corps get rich on the public dole shipping jobs overseas with tax breaks and tax cuts. In addition, more children in those RIGHT TO WORK states go to bed hungry, either because the minimum wage earner cannot provide for them even with public assistance which the right to work state legislatures are cutting.  

  • Kid Dynamite

    James Murdoch will soon be in gaol, chokey, the nick, as they say in Jolly Olde England.

  • Anonymous

    So I guess you liked that episode of ‘Twilight Zone” that Keith Obermann keeps repeating the final line of.  Not that I mind, it was a memorable episode.  But I question you know what the rest of the story was about.  

  • Anonymous

    He’s still COO of News corp, so he’s not gone anywhere.   Kind of strange he ever was in both ‘positions’.   

    Never heard of someone being the COO and OTHER positions, although being on multiple board positions (tons of money, very few meetings per year) is common (and lucrative).   Must have something to do with the family owning the majority of the stock.   

  • Anonymous

    greg was being kind. When you use all caps, your intent is to ‘yell’ and you appear to be a loon.   Most of us don’t read your rant, suspecting the content to be loony as well.

    blessings,  

  • Anonymous

    It’s not too much of a surprise given all the bad publicity that he has been receiving via the Hacking Scandal with the News of the World.

  • Anonymous

    Poor James. Got tossed under the proverbial bus. 

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    good points, however it has nothing to do with what the article is about.  You think the posters on here have some sort of advanced ADH… ohh a penny!

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    which they did, quite effectively if I may add.  That what this story is about.  For eons there have been tabloids and they stooped to anything to break gossip.  There is a great line from Gen Sherman and what he thinks of politicians and the press.  This story isn’t about the crime, but the absolute bundling of the aftermath. 

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    yeah, he’s the victim in all this, not that Dowler kids parents. 

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