He cites ‘disagreements’ over content and decisions.
James Murdoch abruptly resigned from the board of his father’s publishing company Friday, signaling an acceleration in family tensions over the tenor and politics of its far-flung media empire. “My resignation is due to disagreements over certain editorial content published by the company’s news outlets and certain other strategic decisions,” Murdoch wrote in a brisk, two-sentence resignation letter from News Corp. News Corp. declined to comment. James Murdoch was not available for comment. The 47-year-old executive has served on the board of News Corp., which counts the Wall Street Journal among its properties, for two decades. But by late Friday, his name had been scrubbed from the company’s website. Two other Murdochs remain: His father, Rupert Murdoch, continues as News Corp.’s executive chairman, and his older brother, Lachlan Murdoch, stays on as co-chairman. Lachlan Murdoch,48, also serves as chief executive and executive chairman of the company’s other media company, Fox Corp., which includes the Fox News Channel. Until last year, James Murdoch was CEO of Fox but he moved on after his father sold most of the Fox entertainment holdings to Walt Disney Co.
