Reuters
"There are no training wheels in boardrooms and she is supposed to be up and running on day one," Corporate Library co-founder
Nell Minow says of
Natalie Bancroft, an opera singer who is expected to be appointed to the News Corp. board. "It may be that she is a quick study and she is going to throw herself into this and learn all about accounting and SEC filings. It may be that they put her on the committee that plans the Christmas party and call it a day."
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Murdoch says his top priority at WSJ is to "get it as we like it" (FT)