James Murdoch appears to be signaling to the world that he wants no part in running his family’s controversial media empire — though he will continue to personally profit from it
James Murdoch seen standing slightly apart from his father and brother at the elder Murdoch’s wedding in 2016. Photo: Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images Media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s youngest and most rebellious son, James Murdoch, resigned from the board of News Corp on Friday, citing “disagreements over certain editorial content published” by the corporations’ news outlets, which include the New York Post and Wall Street Journal, as well as “other strategic decisions” at the company.
“We’re grateful to James for his many years of service to the company,” Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch said in a statement responding to the resignation “We wish him the very best in his future endeavors,” the statement continued. Indeed, those future endeavors, and James’s divergence from his family’s political project, have been developing for a while, as the Daily Beast summarized on Friday:
As far as why James would seemingly abandon a position of great influence at News Corp rather than use it to push for reform, Brian Stelter noted in Friday’s Reliable Sources newsletter that he appears to have given up on that aim, at least for now:
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