James Murdoch doesn’t share his famiy’s conservative political views.
James Murdoch abruptly quit the board of News Corp, the holding company for his family’s newspapers Friday night, citing “disagreements over certain editorial content published by the Company’s news outlets and certain other strategic decisions.” His two-sentence resignation letter, which News Corp disclosed in an SEC filing, wasn’t more specific. New York-based News Corp. released a statement from his father Rupert and his elder brother Lachlan. They are, respectively, the company’s Executive Chairman and co-Chairman and said:” We’re grateful to James for his many years of service to the company. We wish him the very best in his future endeavors.” The corporate parent of the New York Post, Wall Street Journal and the Times of London didn’t elaborate further. James Murdoch, who was at one time considered by many observers to be media tycoon Rupert Murdoch’s heir, has distanced himself from his family’s conservative political views for years. As the New York Times and other media outlets have noted, Murdoch and his wife, Kathryn, donated $1 million to the campaign of presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden in recent months.
