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Rupert Murdoch steps down as Fox, News Corp chairman, ceding to son Lachlan

Billionaire Rupert Murdoch, 92, began building a global media empire when he inherited his father's newspaper business in Australia in 1954.

The Street

Rupert Murdoch steps down as chairman of Fox, News Corp

Murdoch’s son Lachlan will become sole chairman of News Corp and continue as chairman and CEO of Fox, companies say.

Al Jazeera

Key takeaways from Michael Wolff’s book on Murdoch, Fox and US politics

Here’s what we’ve learned so far from the eagerly awaited book The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty

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Mark Humphries’ comedy sketch cut from 7.30 in ABC’s latest cost-cutting drive

Satirical sketches axed due to ‘tight budgetary environment’. Plus: ABC managing director David Anderson gains another term

The Guardian - AU

The Murdochs and the ABC: it’s not just about competition, but about identity

The ABC and News Corp aren’t merely competitors — they are motivated by contradictory ideologies around national identity.

Crikey

Learning the hard way

One in three Australian children failed literacy and numeracy exams in this year’s NAPLAN testing, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will announce the date for the Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum in Adelaide next week.

Crikey

Afternoon Update: Ita Buttrose to step down as ABC chair; Mark Latham quits One Nation; and Lachlan Murdoch pays $1.3m

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Lachlan Murdoch pays Crikey $1.3m in legal costs over dropped defamation suit

Fox Media chief executive pays costs on condition that almost $600,000 in crowdfunding raised by Crikey will be donated to press freedom group

The Guardian - AU

Lachlan Murdoch pays Private Media $1.3m costs, ending high-profile defamation saga

The Fox News CEO sets condition that Private Media donates all GoFundMe donations to the Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom.

Crikey

Rupert Murdoch dating again, four months after breaking off engagement

The media mogul met Elena Zhukova at a family party and the couple have been cruising together in the Mediterranean for several weeks

The Guardian - AU

How Fox uses the World Cup and Masked Singer to keep Fox News on air

The company leverages hit shows to hike the price it charges cable companies to carry its channels

The Guardian - US

Amid Flurry of Lawsuits, Fox Legal Head Viet Dinh Steps Down

Executive gets lump-sum payment of $23 million

Broadcasting & Cable

Sportsbet unleashes record spend as Canberra weighs gambling advertising ban

As discussion heats up around reform on gambling advertising, lobbying has kicked into gear. But who would a ban actually affect?

Crikey

A former Fox executive now argues Murdoch is unfit to own TV stations

Preston Padden helped Rupert Murdoch launch the Fox broadcast network in the 1990s. Now he argues Murdoch has proved unfit to hold the license for a Philadelphia station.

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Fox Reports Higher Q4 Net Income

Advertising revenue down 4%, affiliate revenue up 3%

Crikey

Cheap IPA (not the good kind), more Morrisonian shrugs and another defection at Fox

Snap up cheap IPA membership, ScoMo’s biography in absentia, and a Fox veteran turns on the Murdochs — plus plenty more from the Crikey bunker.

The Independent UK

Tucker Carlson reveals what he claims to be real reason he was fired from Fox News

Fox ‘agreed to take me off the air, my show off the air, as a condition of the Dominion settlement,’ Carlson tells biographer

The Guardian - US

Tucker Carlson claims in book Fox News firing was part of $787.5m settlement

Former prime-time host tells biographer he ‘knows’ firing was part of deal to resolve Dominion Voting Systems defamation case

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Group Challenges Fox’s License To Operate WTXF Philadelphia

Former Fox executive Preston Padden says Rupert Murdoch knew the company was broadcasting false information about the 2020 election

The Independent UK

Politicians and members of the media rub shoulders at Murdoch annual party

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer were among those attending the event at Spencer House in London on Thursday.

Crikey

Murdochs’ empire grows and grows, and where it stops nobody knows

Sky News and News Corp tabloids give the Albanese government a hard time, it’s true, but there are still strong and close connections.

Crikey

Ben Roberts-Smith is now undefamable, thanks to the contextual truth defence

In the Roberts-Smith and Lachlan Murdoch cases, the publishers ran a lesser-known defence that allowed a different approach.

Crikey

We’re feeling their age

Aged Care Minister Anika Wells says our growing ageing population means an aged care levy should be part of funding discussions, and former Coalition-now independent MP Gareth Ward will not be barred from NSW Parliament.

The Independent UK

Oregon is invested in Fox Corp. and is investigating its board over bogus election fraud claims

Oregon’s attorney general has announced she has begun investigating the board of directors of Fox Corp. for breaching its fiduciary duties by allowing Fox News to broadcast false claims about the 2020 presidential election

The Guardian - AU

Kerry Stokes’ gamble on Ben Roberts-Smith backfires as Seven bets on Bruce Lehrmann

The former Coalition staffer, who denies claims by Brittany Higgins, will appear on Seven’s Spotlight program on Sunday to tell ‘his side of the story’. Plus: Crikey celebrates a legal win

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