Revolving Door: Rupert Murdoch, NBC Universal News Group, Jeff Daniels on 'CBS This Morning', and More

Rupert Murdoch (pictured at left) has resigned from a number of News Corp. boards, including his post as director of News International, the holding company for the newspapers at the center of the U.K. hacking scandal. The company is reportedly preparing to divest its publishing and entertainment properties, a split that was approved by the board of News Corp. on June 27. After the split, Murdoch will remain chairman of both companies as well as CEO of the new entertainment company. (Adweek) Pat Fili-Krushel has been named chairman, news group, at NBCUniversal. Fili-Krushel, who joined NBC when Comcast took over, will now oversee a new unit called the NBCUniversal News group comprised of NBC News, CNBC, MSNBC, The Weather Channel and all their digital properties. (TVNewser) Sam Grobart is leaving The New York Times for Bloomberg Businessweek. According to a memo obtained by Jim Romenesko, Grobart will “develop multimedia projects” as well as write tech features for Businessweek. Grobart had been with the Times since 2008, most recently as personal technology editor, since 2010. (FishbowlNY) In case you missed it, actor Jeff Daniels was on CBS This Morning and on MSNBC’s Hardball last Thursday. Daniels, who plays Will McAvoy on HBO’s The Newsroom told Chris Matthews, “It’s not like we’re out trying to whitewash all of cable news. We’re trying to shine a light on the people really trying to tell the truth and get out the truth every day.” (TVNewser) On a related topic, Aaron Sorkin has gotten rid of his entire Newsroom writing staff, with the exception of his ex-girlfriend Corinne Kinsbury. The Newsroom had 10 credited writers in its premiere season. HBO renewed the show for a second season after its second episode aired. (FishbowlLA) Viacom has reached a new programming fee agreement with DirecTV, ending a 10-day blackout for the satellite-TV service's 20 million U.S. viewers. (Ad Age) Dan Gross is returning to Newsweek after a two year stint at Yahoo Finance. Gross had been with Newsweek as a senior editor from 2007 through 2010, before heading to Yahoo. His work at Newsweek will be seen in print and online. (FishbowlNY) Justin Kenny has been named foreign editor at PBS NEWSHOUR. He had been North America duty news editor at Reuters Television. (release) David Mark has been named editor-in-chief at Politix. He had been senior editor at Politico. (FishbowlDC) Aaron Task has been named editor-in-chief at Yahoo! Finance. He had been correspondent there. (FishbowlNY)

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