James Murdoch has stepped down from the board of Times Newspapers Holdings, the
New York Times’
Media Decoder blog reported.
News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, who is James Murdoch’s father, created Times Newspapers Holdings to ensure the editorial independence of British newspapers
The Times of London
and
The Sunday Times
after News Corp. bought the papers in 1981, the blog said, citing the company’s filings with the British government.
James Murdoch, a central figure in News Corp.’s phone-hacking scandal, resigned from Times Newspapers Holdings’ board “in a continuing effort to distance himself from News Corporation’s embattled British newspaper unit,” the blog report noted. (Source: Media Decoder,
New York Times,
March 24, 2012.)
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