London: Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has stepped
down as a director of number of companies behind The Sun, The Times
and The Sunday Times, a News International spokesperson said on
Saturday.
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| Rupert Murdoch [File Photo] |
Earlier, in last week Murdoch had
resigned from a number of boards many of them small subsidiary boards, both in
the UK and US and this has fuelled expectations that he was preparing to sell
his News International newspaper group.
The News Corp
chief executive resigned from the boards of News Corp Investments, News
International Group Limited and Times Newspaper Holdings in the last week.
He has also stepped down from
boards in the US, Australia and India
News Corporation played down the
significance of the resignations as nothing more than a corporate housecleaning
exercise prior to the company split.
Notably, the move comes after
Murdoch announced last month that News Corp will press ahead with a split of
the entertainment division from its struggling publishing business, saying he
is committed to both units.