But he remains the News International chairman and a director of the holding company for the Times and the Sunday Times.
We'll have more in just a minute when we go live to Pakistan for an update from journalist Kamal Siddiqi from the News International yesterday.
Quite rightly the focus of attention on the News International scandal is at present on the issues of phone hacking, police failure, takeovers and so on.
There is now effectively a stand-off between these directors and the News International management, who had expected Mr Witherow's appointment to be formally approved at the meeting.
But both share prices falling means that the markets thought that this particular deal was wealth enhancing, the News International price falling (at least in part) because that value will now not be created.
In the filings, the lawyers representing phone-hacking victims say News Group Newspapers, the News International subsidiary that included the News of the World, had a legal obligation to preserve information starting in at least 2007.
Murdoch's international newspaper empire includes the New York Post, the News International stable of UK titles including the Sun and the Times, and a cluster of Australian papers including the Daily Telegraph and the Herald Sun.
But post-Leveson -- the inquiry established in the aftermath of the News International phone-hacking scandal first revealed after both Princes William and Harry's phones were targeted -- no editor seemed, initially at least, is prepared to risk the backlash.
The biggest current scandal, relating to some dodgy police property deals, may pale beside the News International saga, but with its tactical leaks and water muddying it shares some of the same themes, and has already begun to expose the rot within South Africa's establishment with depressing clarity.
In a statement the Met said the latest referral was in connection with the "ongoing high level public interest" in the relationship between News of the World publisher News International and the Metropolitan Police.
It says the News of the World and News International "corporately" misled the committee, as well as accusing in-house lawyer Tom Crone, former NoW editor Colin Myler and former executive chairman Les Hinton of misleading them on particular issues.
In addition to owning News of the World, News International owns the Sun, the Times and the Sunday Times in Britain.
Three police investigations are currently examining allegations of phone hacking, e-mail hacking and corrupt payments to police at the News of the World and other papers owned by News International, the UK arm of News Corp.
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After initially claiming malpractice was limited to one "rogue" reporter at the News of the World, News International has now settled dozens of civil cases admitting liability for hacking between 2001 and 2006.
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Many of the allegations surround an "Email Deletion Policy" that the filings say News International, the U.K. newspaper unit of News Corp.
As a final nail in the coffin of his once-clean image, Oakley dropped Mr. Armstrong immediately upon hearing the news from the International Cycling Union.
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So it is at least plausible that if Rebekah Brooks had resigned in the past 24 hours, some of the popular and political fury towards News International and the News of the World would have been assuaged.
The management and standards committee of News Corporation, the parent company of News International, confirmed it had "terminated the contract of a member of staff in relation to his previous work".
There are two big questions for James Murdoch, the chairman of News International, who tonight announced the closure of the News of the World.
News Corporation is the parent company of News International, which runs the Sun.
Public outrage over the scandal led News International to close the best-selling Sunday tabloid.
"The practices at News International have stained the proud tradition of the British press, " Ms. Harman said.
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Rebekah Brooks, the former News International chief who Murdoch backed until last week, was arrested yesterday in London.
He worked for Geo News television, Jang Online News and the daily paper News International in both English and Urdu.
Imran Shaikh, a news cameraman for Samaa TV, and Mohammad Iqbal, a photographer with the news agency News Network International (NNI) were killed instantly, while Saif-ur-Rehman, a Samaa News reporter, died of his injuries later in hospital.
My conclusion from all this, which has been corroborated by talking to those close to the two companies, is that Rupert Murdoch and News Corporation will almost certainly have to delay their takeover of BSkyB - at least until it is apparent that the News of the World and News International have been cleaned up.
But pending the results of the police enquiry into alleged illegal behaviour by the News of the World, and pending a public disclosure by News International of the way that it has changed its structures and practices to ensure such abuses never happen again, Ofcom is not in a position to adjudicate whether News Corporation is fit and proper.
Public outrage over the claims led News International to shut down the best-selling Sunday tabloid in July.
When you read the newspaper, it is possible to get a rounded picture of the world by flipping through the international news, national news, arts, business, sports, and more.
As a result of the reorganisation, two senior News International employees - William Lewis and Simon Greenberg - will give up their current jobs and become News Corporation staff, engaged full time in the clean-up of News international.
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