James Murdoch Steps Down from News Corp Board Over ‘Disagreements’ Over Editorial Content

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEnding a tumultuous Tuesday for NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Ron Meyer, the executive is exiting his role as the chair of the Film Academy Museum’s board, a post he’s held since 2017.Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos, the museum’s vice-chair of the board, will step in as acting chair. The next board meeting is Sept.

Also Read: Los Angeles Times Sports Columnist Arash Markazi Resigns After Investigation Into Ethical Breaches, PlagiarismLora Victorio, one of Rodriguez’s deputies on the news desk, will oversee the news desk in the interim, while Samantha Melbourneweaver, the paper’s audience engagement director, will continue in her position.As TheWrap reported last week, Rodriguez was a member of the paper’s team of editors and managers dedicated to boosting digital subscriptions at the Times whose frank

Also Read: Focus Features Closes Deal for James Gray's 'Armageddon Time' (Exclusive)During Walak’s four-year run, the studio’s films have garnered an impressive 28 Academy Awards nominations from prestige pics like Jeff Nichols’ “Loving,” Joe Wright’s “Darkest Hour,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread,” Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman” and Kasi Lemmons’ “Harriet.”Walak, who was based in London for much of his time at the studio, was instrumental in championing the move of “Downton Abbey” to the

Nancy Tartaglione International Box Office Editor/Senior ContributorEXCLUSIVE: Focus Features President Robert Walak will be stepping down from his position and moving into an advisory consulting role with the Universal specialty studio. Walak will continue to work with Focus on projects he helped shepherd into development while there, and there are no plans to replace him in the role of President.

MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Editor's note: contains references that some readers may find offensiveA cartoon in Australia's biggest national newspaper drew condemnation on Friday as being racist for portraying U.S.

Fox Corp. on Wednesday reported a fall in quarterly earnings and overall revenues, as the owner of Fox News Channel and Fox Entertainment recorded lower advertising revenue amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Days after resigning from News Corp.'s board of directors, James Murdoch has been approved to join the board of the owner of Art Basel as his firm takes a stake in the company. MCH Group, the owner ofthe global art fair platform, disclosed Monday that its board of directors had voted to approve Murdoch's firm, Lupa Systems, to invest in the company and voted to add the mogul to its board.

Former 21st Century Fox CEO James Murdoch has resigned from the board of News Corp., the parent company of the Wall Street Journal. In a letter of resignation filed Friday afternoon, Murdoch wrote: "My resignation is due to disagreements over certain editorial content published by the Company’s news outlets and certain other strategic decisions." James Murdoch had been on News Corp.'s board of directors since 2013.

Australia and the U.K. and owns the HarperCollins book publisher.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorNews Corp. said Friday that James Murdoch, the son of founder Rupert Murdoch, is exiting the board of directors due to unspecified differences over editors content, the latest in periodic bouts of family drama around the media dynasty.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorBilled as the biggest English libel trial of the 21st century, Johnny Depp’s 16-day legal battle with Rupert Murdoch-owned tabloid newspaper The Sun concluded on Tuesday after both sides made their closing arguments at the High Court.Judge Justice Nicol is now set to take the coming weeks to deliberate over a verdict, which he is not expected to deliver until September at the earliest.

Naman Ramachandran Johnny Depp did not appear at London’s Royal Courts of Justice on Monday, as his libel case against Rupert Murdoch’s U.K. tabloid The Sun and executive editor Dan Wootton entered its penultimate day of hearings.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorEXCLUSIVE: Nicola Bamford, the CEO of Endemol Shine’s international operations, has become the latest executive to step down after Banijay completed its $2.2BN takeover of the MasterChef production group earlier this month.Bamford has worked at Endemol Shine for the past three years, but joins the likes of CEO Sophie Turner Laing and Wim Ponnet, the chief strategy and commercial officer, in heading for the exit door since the Banijay merger was made

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterIDW Publishing has named Jerry Bennington as President, replacing Chris Ryall who recently exited the company to pursue new busness ventures.