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News Corp leads the right from ‘No to division’ to ‘no to diversity’

News Corp’s pivot following the Voice defeat says a great deal about where the company will go in the future under Lachlan Murdoch.

Crikey

Telegraph auction poses litmus test for value of newspapers in digital age

While falling sales suggest the demise of print, the industry has proved adaptable and remains attractive to media barons

The Guardian - UK

The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire by Michael Wolff review – Succession without a sense of humour

No one emerges with much credit in Wolff’s second study of Rupert Murdoch and his family – a gossipy story of power and greed peppered with endless layers of psychological insight

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What should we hear when we hear the word ‘elite’?

It used to be that the word suggested superiority. Now it’s considered a character slur, its current noxious position sitting right beside ‘woke’.

Crikey

Does Lachlan have the cojones to take on his father’s empire?

Whereas Rupert is passionate about newspapers, being an inky through and through, Lachlan has displayed relatively little interest in them

Evening Standard

Brian Cox on Rupert Murdoch’s succession plan: ‘the freedom to manipulate’

Succession actor jokes Murdoch may have watched ‘too much’ of the TV series and criticises claim that global media empire is committed to ‘freedom’

The Guardian - AU

‘A privilege to work for one of the greatest Australians’: highlights from the Rupert Murdoch hagiography

From ex-PMs to ecstatic employees, the words of praise for Rupert Murdoch came thick and fast in News Corp publications.

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As Rupert Murdoch retires, a look into succession drama that roiled his family and inspired HBO hit

Like Logan Roy in the HBO drama "Succession," Murdoch encouraged his children to compete to be his successor.

Fortune

What fate awaits Rupert Murdoch favourites in the new Lachlan era?

Rebekah Brooks and Robert Thomson may lose out alongside old-school media in push for new-media growth

The Guardian - UK

The fall of Rupert Murdoch: Insiders say they never thought he would step aside

The shock announcement has raised questions over what made the media baron decide now is the time to hand over to son Lachlan

Evening Standard

From dictator to trailblazer, MPs react to Murdoch move

Politicians, many of whom have been in the firing line of Rupert Murdoch's media empire, have given mixed reactions to news of his retirement.

AAP

Rupert, even in retirement, takes the low road

Rupert Murdoch’s departure from the head of his empire was very much in keeping with the rest of his time at the top.

Crikey

The Murdoch shuffle: Shakespeare, Succession or musical chairs?

Rupert is stepping down and Lachlan supposedly stepping up — but how much is really changing in the Murdoch dynasty’s corridors of power?

Crikey

Morning Mail: Rupert Murdoch to step down, new calls for Johns to go, and a Scandi scandal

The mogul’s eldest son, Lachlan, will take over at Fox and News Corp, ending seven-decade career; Burney say no activist must quit after latest outburst

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France 24

End of an era? Rupert Murdoch steps down as chair of News Corp, Fox Corp

Seventy years after inheriting the Australian newspaper that he used as a foundation to build a global empire, media mogul Rupert Murdoch says his son Lachlan will replace him as chair of Fox Corporation and News Corp. However, Murdoch senior has signalled he will still be very present in decision-making…

The Guardian - UK

What does Rupert Murdoch’s resignation mean for his UK media outlets?

Lachlan Murdoch doesn’t share his father’s interest in Britain but Rupert is still deemed ‘very much in control’

The Guardian - US

Rupert Murdoch’s reign at Fox News is over. But the damage he did may last forever

The media tycoon wreaked untold havoc on American democracy and beyond

The Guardian - UK

Improve the world we live in, the departing Rupert Murdoch urged staff today. So why didn’t he?

This is a media and political age that he himself has shaped. It’s hardly a legacy to be proud of, says Guardian columnist Jane Martinson

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The Conversation

Rupert Murdoch and the rise and fall of the press barons: how much power do newspapers still have?

Global media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has announced his retirement as chairman of Fox and News Corp, making way for his son Lachlan. He has been demonised as a puppet master who would pull the strings of politicians behind the scenes, as a man with too much power. But what influence…

The Independent UK

Rupert Murdoch retires from Fox News and News Corp and makes way for major media succession – updates

The 92-year-old said he was in ‘robust health’ and would act as chairman emeritus

The Independent UK

Fox News anchors hail Rupert Murdoch’s ‘indelible imprint’ as he resigns from News Corp

‘The point about his being in robust health and robust with ideas – we can attest to that,’ Dana Perino says about 92-year-old Murdoch

The Independent UK

Rupert Murdoch steps down from Fox and News Corp with son Lachlan to take over media empire

The world’s most powerful – and divisive – media tycoon hands over ‘The Sun’, ‘The Times’ newspapers and Fox Corporation to his son Lachlan after 70 years of making headlines

Crikey

The Murdoch media embraced ‘shareholder value’. Now it’s coming back to bite them

Fox is facing yet another lawsuit over its amplification of Donald Trump’s 2020 election lie, with the plaintiff’s accusing the Murdochs of sinning against that most holy writ of neoliberalism: the primacy of shareholder value.

Crikey

Murdochs delay disclosing their bloated pay packets, after reaping more than $1bn

More companies are releasing annual reports and executive salary data on the same day, yet one media monolith has been conspicuously absent.

The National (Scotland)

New Scots family 'finally free of the Home Office' after 12-year battle

AN Australian family living in the Highlands were celebrating last night after they were finally given leave to remain in Scotland – after a…

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