Breaking news: Succession season five has just dropped!
Oh wait, no. This latest chapter in the story of modern media’s most famous family might feel ripped from the script notes of Jesse Armstrong’s blockbuster saga, but the news that Rupert Murdoch, the nonagenarian founder of News Corp, will step down as the company’s chair is the climax of a decades-long drama. It should be no shock that the Australian-born magnate will be relinquishing some of his duties at the age of 92, but the past decades have seen so much turmoil within the Murdoch clan – including brutal consanguineal relations between his kids – that there was a feeling that this day might never arrive. Yet here it is.
