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January 19, 2013updated 21 Jan 2013 3:02pm

John Witherow made ‘acting’ editor of Times after independent directors show their teeth

By Dominic Ponsford

Sunday Times editor John Witherow has been appointed acting editor of The Times tonight.

His deputy Martin Ivens is to be acting editor of The Sunday Times.

The appointments are only understood to be “acting” because the independent directors of Times Newspapers have concerns about the legal undertakings given by Rupert Murdoch when he bought The Times titles and declined to approve permanent appointments.

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