James Murdoch resigned from News Corp, the parent company of the Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, bringing up disagreements over the company’s editorial decisions.
In a resignation letter filed Friday afternoon, Murdoch said his departure “is due to disagreements over secure editorial content published through the company’s media and some other strategic decisions.”
The youngest son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, James had been a board member of News Corp since 2013.
News Corp. is one of two media companies owned by the Murdoch family, the other being Fox Corporation, which now owns Fox News, Fox Business and the Fox television network. James CEO of Fox from the 21st century until its sale to Disney last year.
James, 47, recently spoke of his disagreements with some members of the Murdoch family, who must be conservative.
“There are issues of opinion that I disagree with at Fox,” he told the New Yorker last year. His older brother Lachlan, 49, has run Fox Corporation since 2018.
In January, James and his wife, Kathryn, an activist, publicly rebuked the forest fires in Australia, which downplayed the role of man-made climate change.
In a statement to The Associated Press through a News Corp spokesman, Rupert Murdoch and Lachlan Murdoch said, “We are grateful to James for his many years of service to the company. We wish him all the most productive in his long-term efforts.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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