Whether James Murdoch can ever succeed his father, Rupert, at the helm of News Corporation after resigning on February 29th as head of its scandal-rid den newspaper arm, News International, is not clear. The firm, of course, is depicting the change as almost trivial: he will still be deputy chief operating officer of News Corp and overseer of its international businesses, and it was first announced nearly a year ago that he would move to New York.
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