Ms Ramsden left Sky on Friday after less than a year in the job, the Guardian newspaper said.

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The Guardian reported that News Corp. withdrew its promise to spin off Sky News as a separately listed publicly-traded company, a conditional part of their previously negotiated takeover deal.

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Instead, he is having talks with BSkyB and with News Corporation (which already owns 39% of Sky and various British newspapers, including the Sun and Times), as the Guardian disclosed a few days ago.

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To sum up the reports from The Guardian, no staff member can (a) retweet a story from outside Sky, and (b) should pass it to the news desk as a lead.

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