Adviser News
New Zealander Mockridge assumes command of News International. The Executive has had hard enfreamientos with Silvio Berlusconi. New Zealander Tom Mockridge, hitherto CEO of Sky Italy, will assume the same position at News International after the resignation of Rebekah Brooks, Director of News of the World when the British Sunday conducted illegal wiretapping. Mockridge has spent 20 years linked to the Empire of Rupert Murdoch. After starting his career as a journalist in New Zealand and Australia, where was j section of economy of the Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian newspapers, he temporarily left the press to become Adviser to the Prime Minister of Australia Paul Keating when this was economy Minister. Today announcing his appointment, James Murdoch, responsible for News Corporation in Europe and Asia and son of Rupert, said that Tom is a superb executive with an unbeatable experience in business journalism and television. Father of two sons, Mockridge arrives in the United Kingdom to be responsible for News International, subsidiary British News Corporation, in a really awkward time but with the reputation of having consolidated Sky in Italy, where digital television platform has five million subscribers.
San Jose Time