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Media mogul Rupert Murdoch has stepped down as director of several subsidiary boards within his troubled News Corporation conglomerate1, ahead of a planned company split.
A corporate2 statement said Murdoch stepped down as director of NI Group (formerly News International), Times Newspaper Holdings and News Corporation Investments. It linked the move to a recent announcement that the $53 billion media empire would separate its publishing and its media and entertainment businesses into two publicly traded companies.
Speculation3 has intensified4 in the last year that News Corporation could seek to sell its embattled British newspapers, in response to a phone hacking5 operation allegedly approved by senior editors at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid6.
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1 conglomerate | |
n.综合商社,多元化集团公司 | |
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adj.共同的,全体的;公司的,企业的 | |
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n.思索,沉思;猜测;投机 | |
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5 hacking | |
n.非法访问计算机系统和数据库的活动 | |
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6 tabloid | |
adj.轰动性的,庸俗的;n.小报,文摘 | |
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adv.严格地;严厉地;非常恶劣地 | |
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8 tycoon | |
n.有钱有势的企业家,大亨 | |
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