James Murdoch resigns from News Corp. board over editorial disagreements
By Tal Axelrod - 07/31/20 05:52 PM EDT
James Murdoch resigned from his position on the board of News Corp. on Friday, citing editorial decisions from the company’s news outlets.
“I hereby tender my resignation as a member of the Board of Directors of News Corporation (the 'Company'), effective as of the date hereof,†Murdoch wrote in a letter to the company’s board.
“My resignation is due to disagreements over certain editorial content published by the Company’s news outlets and certain other strategic decisions.â€
Murdoch had sat on News Corp.’s board of directors since 2013.
News Corp. is currently run by CEO Robert Thomson and owns such media outlets as The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, The New York Post and other outlets in the United Kingdom and Australia.
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