Arthur Siskind is a lawyer

Lawyer

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 and businessperson

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. He has been an executive director of the News Corporation

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 since 1991. He served as their group general counsel

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 from March 1991 until December 2004. He was succeeded by Lawrence Jacobs

Lawrence Jacobs

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. Mr. Siskind remains on News Corporation’s Board of Directors and continues to serve the Company as Senior Advisor to the Chairman.

As executive director of New Corp., his salary was USD

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$1.7 million with a $5 million annual bonus in 2005.

He graduated from Cornell University

Cornell University

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. Siskind became an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center

Georgetown University Law Center

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 in 2005 and has been a member of the bar of the State of New York since 1962.