News Corp moved to distance James Murdoch from its scandal-hit British newspapers, announcing yesterday that he would step down as executive chairman of News International, its UK press business.
For the first time since Rupert Murdoch bought into the UK newspaper market in 1969 no member of his family will have any direct role in the management of News Corp’s UK press assets, which include The Times, The Sunday Times and The Sun.
Two senior British politicians linked the resignation of the media tycoon’s son to the bad publicity surrounding police and judicial inquiries into illegal journalistic techniques.
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