The Latest Breaking News from Rupert Murdoch

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

Nearly every biographical commentary on Rupert Murdoch notes how he began with a modest inheritance in Adelaide, principally an afternoon newspaper, and built it into a global multimedia empire. Walter Marsh’s book Young Rupert: The Making of the Murdoch Empire has the distinctive strength of knowing Adelaide much better than…

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

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

Murdoch ‘might be in love again’ following his split from Ann Lesley Smith 

Media magnate is in ‘early romance’ with the mother of Russian-American socialite Dasha Zhukova, report claims

Global heating is drying out vegetation, priming it as fuel for wildfires, say scientists. Plus, the plight of the adopted children of Bangladesh’s Birangona women

Fans show their appreciation in a wide variety of ways, from tattoos to gingerbread and baby onesies

The new season of Leon Neyfakh’s Fiasco podcast relives a bleak chapter of US history when a white man became a folk hero after shooting four black youths

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.

Each month, Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on