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Hissyspit

(45,788 posts) Wed Feb 29, 2012, 10:19 AM Feb 2012

Reuters FLASH: James Murdoch Steps Down as Executive Chairman of News International

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/11/23/us-newscorp-murdoch-idUSTRE7AM18E20111123

James Murdoch quits UK newspaper boards

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LONDON | Wed Nov 23, 2011 5:15pm EST

LONDON (Reuters) - James Murdoch has resigned from the boards of the publishing units within News Corp's British newspaper arm, which used to include the now-defunct News of the World tabloid at the center of the phone hacking scandal, regulatory filings show.

Murdoch, son of media mogul Rupert and deputy chief operating officer of News Corp, remains chairman of News International, the News Corp unit that houses its British newspapers, and a member of the Times editorial board.

The News International unit has been damaged this year by the revelation that people working for the popular Sunday tabloid hacked into the phones of thousands to generate news.

Slow-burning investigations into the matter became front-page national news when it was revealed in July that one of the victims was missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler, who appeared to have been picking up voicemails but was later found murdered.

Ex-News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks resigned as chief executive of News International the following week, and was replaced by Tom Mockridge, the former head of News Corp-owned Sky Italia, on July 15.

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Reuters FLASH: James Murdoch Steps Down as Executive Chairman of News International (Original Post) Hissyspit Feb 2012 OP

needs his time in court mdmc Feb 2012 #1

Next job? Making license plates. GodlessBiker Feb 2012 #2

my thought exactly ChairmanAgnostic Feb 2012 #3

Yellow Journalism for the 21st Century. Keystone Writer Feb 2012 #4

Let me know when he steps into a prison cell. Scuba Feb 2012 #5

To date dipsydoodle Feb 2012 #7

This is significant news. northoftheborder Feb 2012 #6

Google / AFP link here dipsydoodle Feb 2012 #8

You've used the old link from Nov 2011 by mistake. dipsydoodle Feb 2012 #9

It's not over... OneAngryDemocrat Feb 2012 #10

Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Feb 2012 #11

Die Fox die!!! nt and-justice-for-all Feb 2012 #12

Good! LeftishBrit Feb 2012 #13

He has been shown to be an unfit person..... T_i_B Feb 2012 #14

BBC: James Murdoch quits News International eppur_se_muova Feb 2012 #15

Please don't let me libodem Mar 2012 #16

mdmc

(29,092 posts)

1. needs his time in court

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Wed Feb 29, 2012, 10:21 AM

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GodlessBiker

(6,314 posts)

2. Next job? Making license plates.

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Wed Feb 29, 2012, 10:22 AM

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ChairmanAgnostic

(28,017 posts)

3. my thought exactly

Reply to GodlessBiker (Reply #2)

Wed Feb 29, 2012, 10:23 AM

Feb 2012

Look at Rebekah - she quits one day, two days later she's arrested.

Keystone Writer

(65 posts)

4. Yellow Journalism for the 21st Century.

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Wed Feb 29, 2012, 10:37 AM

Feb 2012

That family will be in the history books along with Rudolph Hearst.

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

5. Let me know when he steps into a prison cell.

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Wed Feb 29, 2012, 10:45 AM

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dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)

7. To date

Reply to Scuba (Reply #5)

Wed Feb 29, 2012, 11:27 AM

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there are no charges against anyone at all.

I think that's because all charges will be brought at one and the same time. I can easily see this dragging into 2104 earliest.

northoftheborder

(7,575 posts)

6. This is significant news.

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Wed Feb 29, 2012, 11:25 AM

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dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)

8. Google / AFP link here

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Wed Feb 29, 2012, 11:29 AM

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NEW YORK — News Corp. said Wednesday that James Murdoch has stepped down as executive chairman of News International, the Rupert Murdoch-owned company's troubled British publishing unit.

News International has been embroiled in a phone-hacking scandal which has seen the arrests of several former top editors and the abrupt closure last year of the News of the World.

The New York-based media-entertainment giant said James Murdoch was stepping down from News International following his relocation to company headquarters in New York as deputy chief operating officer.

"Now that he has moved to New York, James will continue to assume a variety of essential corporate leadership mandates, with particular focus on important pay-TV businesses and broader international operations," Rupert Murdoch, James' father and the chairman and chief executive of News Corp., said in a statement.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hs_CTgRaPd4Flk9eEsC-e4ENI6_Q?docId=CNG.42f861f1fe02bc15ece2ca430de7ad4e.aa1

dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)

9. You've used the old link from Nov 2011 by mistake.

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Wed Feb 29, 2012, 11:53 AM

Feb 2012

In general this fits in with what Chase Carey said yesterday - Newscorp will probably divest itself of all printed media and News International become a completely separate holding company divorced from Newscorp.

OneAngryDemocrat

(2,060 posts)

10. It's not over...

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Wed Feb 29, 2012, 12:19 PM

Feb 2012

It's not over until you're behind bars, dirt-bag.

Uncle Joe

(58,456 posts)

11. Kicked and recommended.

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Wed Feb 29, 2012, 12:33 PM

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Thanks for the thread, Hissyspit.

and-justice-for-all

(14,765 posts)

12. Die Fox die!!! nt

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Wed Feb 29, 2012, 12:44 PM

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LeftishBrit

(41,212 posts)

13. Good!

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Wed Feb 29, 2012, 01:29 PM

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T_i_B

(14,749 posts)

14. He has been shown to be an unfit person.....

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Wed Feb 29, 2012, 02:56 PM

Feb 2012

....to serve as a director of a PLC. Either he knew ful well the extent of the corruption at News International and has lied repeatedly to all and sundry or he is incompent on an epic scale.

eppur_se_muova

(36,305 posts)

15. BBC: James Murdoch quits News International

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Wed Feb 29, 2012, 03:04 PM

Feb 2012

Mr Murdoch will remain as deputy chief operating officer of parent group News Corporation, run by his father Rupert.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17209375

libodem

(19,288 posts)

16. Please don't let me

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Thu Mar 1, 2012, 02:20 AM

Mar 2012

Gravedance. It's so unattractive. It's wrong to revel in someones destruction. Karma at work. Glad to see it. Well deserved.

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