News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch has resigned from directorships in three corporate subsidiaries that control major newspapers in his media empire: NI Group, the Times Newspaper Holdings, and Newscorp Investments in Britain. This move is a "remarkable turnaround" from his previous hands-on overseeing of such pubs as The Sun, "raising fresh speculation that he may be planning for an eventual sale of [those] newspapers," writes John F. Burns and Ravi Somaiya.