Morning Links: James Murdoch Stepping Down from BSkyB

James Murdoch, still in hot water over his non-handling of News International’s phone hacking and bribery scandal, will step down as non-executive chairman of  BSkyB after a board meeting today. His handling of the crisis already cost News Corp. its takeover bid of the British cable giant, and he has already resigned from News International and the boards of Sotheby’s and GlaxoSmithKline.  [Reuters]

In other news…

In the wake of Keith Olbermann’s ouster, Current TV is retaining crisis PR “masters of disaster” Mark Fabiani and Chris Lehane. [Hollywood Reporter]

Cablevision CEO Jim Dolan thinks Mort Zuckerman is extorting him with negative coverage of the Knicks in hopes of a merger between Newsday and Daily News. [Forbes]

New-to-Buzzfeed blogger Copyranter got into it with Business Insider on his first day. [BI]

Former Lucky editor Kim France has launched a style blog for the 40-somethings, Girl of a Certain Age. [WWD]

Robert Redford, who played Bob Woodward in All the President’s Men is now making a Watergate Documentary for Discovery Channel. [NY Times]

Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News sold for $55 M. [WSJ]

Joe Nocera got a new columnist portrait and it’s a little Mollyish. [NY Times]