The Associated Press's Board of Governors - Where's Rupert Murdoch?

[Median Democrat]

What happened to Rupert Murdoch?

I. Many American news organizations get their stories from the Associated Press:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press#Governance

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The Associated Press (AP) is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staffers. Many newspapers and broadcasters outside the United States are AP subscribers, paying a fee to use AP material without being contributive members of the cooperative.
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The decline of AP's traditional rival, United Press International, as a major American competitor in 1993 left the AP as the only nationally oriented news service based in the United States. Other English-language news services, such as Reuters and the English language service of Agence France-Presse, are based outside the United States.

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II. Rupert Murdoch was named as a member of the AP's Board of Governors last year

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20080414-0846-apboard.html

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WASHINGTON – Rupert Murdoch and Sam Zell, two media figures who led major newspaper acquisitions in recent months, are among four new members joining the board of directors of The Associated Press, it was announced Monday at the news cooperative's annual meeting.
In other results, four incumbent directors were re-elected to three-year terms. They are William Dean Singleton, who is vice chairman and chief executive officer of MediaNews Group and chairman of the AP board; Jon K. Rust, publisher of the Southeast Missourian and co-president of Rust Communications; Michael E. Reed, chief executive officer of GateHouse Media Inc., and Victor F. Ganzi, president and chief executive officer of Hearst Corp.

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III. However, the AP's website does not list Rupert Murdoch as a Board member.

http://www.ap.org/pages/about/board.html

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William Dean Singleton – Chairman
Vice Chairman and CEO
MediaNews Group Inc.
Denver, Colorado

Mary Junck– Vice Chairman
President and CEO
Lee Enterprises, Inc.
Davenport, Iowa

Donna J. Barrett
President and chief executive officer
Community Newspaper Holdings
Birmingham, AL

Craig A. Dubow
President and chief executive officer
Gannett Co., Inc.
McLean, VA

R. Jack Fishman
Publisher and Editor
Citizen Tribune
Morristown, Tennessee

Walter E. Hussman Jr.
Publisher
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Little Rock, Arkansas

Julie Inskeep
Publisher
The Journal Gazette
Fort Wayne, Indiana

Boisfeuillet (Bo) Jones
Publisher and CEO
The Washington Post
Washington, D.C.

Mary Junck
President and CEO
Lee Enterprises, Inc.
Davenport, Iowa

David Lord
President
Pioneer Newspapers, Inc.
Seattle, Washington

R. John Mitchell
Publisher
Rutland Herald
Rutland, Vermont

Steven O. Newhouse
Chairman,
Advance.Net
New York, New York

Charles V. Pittman
Senior Vice President-Publishing
Schurz Communications Inc.
South Bend, Indiana

Gary Pruitt
Chairman, President and CEO
The McClatchy Company
Sacramento, California

Michael E. Reed
CEO
GateHouse Media, Inc.
Fairport, New York

Bruce T. Reese
President and CEO
Bonneville International Corp.
Salt Lake City, Utah

Jon Rust
Publisher
Southeast Missourian
Co-president, Rust Communications
Cape Girardeau, Missouri

David Westin
President
ABC News
New York, New York

H. Graham Woodlief
President, Publishing Division
Vice President,
Media General Inc.
Richmond, Virginia

Sam Zell
Chairman and chief executive officer
Tribune Company
Chicago, IL

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[alexandria]

1. What happened to him ?

[Garbo 2004]

2. He wasn't appointed to a full term. A temporary fill in. From the article you linked to:

Murdoch, chairman and chief executive officer of News Corp., was appointed by the board until the next election of directors to fill the vacancy created by the departure of Jay Smith, who announced earlier this month he was retiring as president of Cox Newspapers. http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20080414-0846-apboard.html