News Corp. nominated one of Silicon Valley’s top venture capitalists, Jim Breyer of Accel Partners, to its board of directors yesterday.

The media company, which owns The Post, said two other prominent venture capitalists, Kenneth E. Cowley and Thomas J. Perkins, will step down.

Also yesterday, James Murdoch, the company’s deputy chief operating officer, said he would forgo his $6 million bonus following a phone-hacking controversy at News Corp.’s now-shuttered UK tabloid News of the World.

“While the financial and operating performance metrics on which the bonus decision was based are not associated with this matter, I feel that declining the bonus is the right thing to do,” he said in a statement.