News Corp. Appoints David Pitofsky General Counsel And Chief Compliance Officer

(RTTNews) - News Corp. (NWS, NWSA, NWS.AX) announced that it has appointed David Pitofsky General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer. Pitofsky succeeds Gerson Zweifach.

Zweifach, who remains Group General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of 21st Century Fox, was retained as the General Counsel of News Corp on a transitional basis following the separation of the two companies in June 2013.

Pitofsky has been Deputy General Counsel and Deputy Chief Compliance Officer of News Corp since 2013.

As General Counsel, Pitofsky will oversee global legal operations for News Corp, including litigation, mergers and acquisitions, ethics and corporate governance matters. As Chief Compliance Officer, he will chair the Company's Compliance Steering Committee. He will lead a legal team that includes deputy general counsels Michael Bunder, Eugenie Gavenchak, Mark Jackson and James Marcovitz. Mr. Bunder also serves as News Corp Corporate Secretary and Mr. Jackson also serves as General Counsel of the Company's Dow Jones subsidiary.

Pitofsky joined News Corp from the law firm of Goodwin Procter LLP, where he was a partner. From 1996 to 2005, he was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of New York, rising to the level of Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division.