The Latest Breaking News from Rupert Murdoch

SCOTUS quietly jumpstarts Project 2025

Donald Trump’s authoritarian playbook on Christian nationalism is already in motion

Salon · Aug 12, 2024

How Rupert Murdoch helped create a monster – the era of Trumpism – and then lost control of it

You can’t help but feel sorry for Rupert Murdoch.

The Conversation · Aug 11, 2024

New chair Kim Williams says ABC should be ‘last broadcaster standing’ and News Corp’s criticism is ‘unbalanced’

Exclusive: Former News Corp CEO says Murdoch company’s obsession with the public broadcaster is ‘fairly unhinged’ and should largely be ignored

The Guardian - AU · Aug 10, 2024

Rupert Murdoch’s succession plan reveals a lot about his empire – and most of it is not pretty

Rupert Murdoch’s attempt to continue controlling his company from beyond the grave would be better labelled Project Hegemony, than Harmony, because it’s designed to cement one sibling’s dominance over the others and shield the business from possible progressive reform.

The Conversation · Aug 1, 2024

UK police special enquiry team to examine role of Washington Post chief in email deletions

Exclusive: Scotland Yard move on complaint by ex-PM Gordon Brown, who accuses Will Lewis of phone hacking ‘cover-up’ in 2011

The Guardian - UK · Jul 31, 2024

Rupert Murdoch’s real succession drama − why the future of his media empire could hinge on a legal effort in Nevada

Conservative media titan Rupert Murdoch is making news again – this time, with a secretive effort to change an irrevocable trust. That trust has important ownership interests in both Fox Corp. and News Corp., so it affects broadcast news as well as The Wall Street Journal and other publications.

The Conversation · Jul 30, 2024

Sun publisher to be searched over ‘fake security threat’ claims, court hears

NGN accused of claiming Gordon Brown had seen Rebekah Brooks’s emails to justify deleting millions of messages amid phone-hacking investigation

The Guardian - UK · Jul 29, 2024

The Sun publisher agrees to searches over ‘fake security threat’ allegations

THE publisher of The Sun has agreed to search for documents that may relate to allegations it invented a “fake security threat” to justify the…

The National (Scotland) · Jul 29, 2024

What's going on in the Murdochs' bitter succession fight?

He gave them $2bn each, but they want more. Now Rupert Murdoch has taken on his ‘Leftie’ kids in a US court to save his empire’s Right-wing bias and lost. Chris Blackhurst reports on a family battle

Evening Standard · Jul 29, 2024

Rupert Murdoch goes to war with his children over his media empire

The move by the billionaire news mogul, 93, could have a ‘real, significant impact’ on the global media landscape

The Guardian - US · Jul 28, 2024