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Rupert, Lachlan and me: inside the Murdochs’ ‘medieval fiefdom’

Eric Beecher says he was ‘shocked’ by what he discovered during his time as editor in chief of News Corp’s Melbourne newspapers

The Guardian - AU

In brief: The Newsmongers; The Night in Venice; Vital Organs – review

An informed history of tabloid journalism; an atmospheric Edwardian-era mystery set in Italy; and a riotous study of famous people’s body parts

The Guardian - UK

Inside British editor Will Lewis's fight to save the Washington Post

Ex-Telegraph editor Will Lewis was hired by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos to turn round the fortunes of the iconic US title. Can he face down a staff mutiny and the ire of Prince Harry over his past lives?

Evening Standard

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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

‘So sharp he’s cut himself’: How Murdoch gained everything but satisfaction

‘Decades of framing political clout, of being the ultimate puppeteer, of the privileged lifestyle, all culminating in a Nevada courtroom having alienated three heirs.’

Crikey

‘Goodies for the war criminal’: Masha Gessen on Netanyahu, Trump and Rupert Murdoch’s influence in Australia

Ahead of their visit to Australia, acclaimed writer Masha Gessen talks to Crikey about their homeland of Russia, the war in Gaza, the upcoming US election, and reasons to be hopeful.

Crikey

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

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My flirtation with Murdoch only lasted two years before my moral compass became too dysfunctional

In this exclusive extract from his new book, Eric Beecher describes his first exposure to the subterranean world of media moguldom.

Crikey

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

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

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)

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

Murdoch feud isn’t about money: Lachlan’s siblings want to save the empire

Lachlan’s adult siblings clearly want to remove his board and management control to tame the wilder right-wing instincts of Fox and News Corp.

Crikey

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

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Rupert Murdoch’s secret succession drama is a warning to rein in the super-rich

Media mogul’s bid to extend rightwing influence beyond the grave must be resisted to the last

The Guardian - UK

Are the lives of Rupert Murdoch and Succession’s Logan Roy inching closer?

A secret legal battle between the media mogul and his children is evoking parallels with his TV counterpart

The Guardian - AU

Nine journalists do their block over Scott Cam’s Paris Olympics appearance amid strike

Age reporter questions expense of flying TV personality to Europe while up to 90 staff are cut from newsrooms. Plus: Murdoch’s real-life succession drama

Crikey

Rupert could have made something worth keeping. He leaves what no-one wants to save

Liberals overestimate his power because they cannot understand the failures of their liberalism and the West. Still, they may be right.

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Crikey

Rupert Murdoch’s own children don’t trust him. Why should anyone else?

Why are senior Labor figures paying court to the Murdochs when Rupert’s own children clearly don’t trust or believe him?

Fortune

Meet Rupert Murdoch’s nepo babies fighting for control of dad’s multibillion-dollar media empire

The patriarch of Fox and News Corp. appears to have chosen a favorite.

Crikey

Albo under cabinet pressure

Labor frontbenchers are urging the prime minister to use recent retirements as an excuse for a larger cabinet shake-up, and the Matildas lose their first game at the Olympics.

The Independent UK

Rupert Murdoch locked in secret legal battle with children over future of media empire

Murdoch bidding to secure right-leaning future of media empire

Fortune

Rupert Murdoch going to court to push 3 of his kids out of News Corp, Fox empires

Court documents show Murdoch wants to give more voting rights to his conservative son, and CEO of Fox, Lachlan.

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: Australia’s sanctions on Israeli settlers; farmers take on daylight saving; and what a Trump presidency means for Australia

Sanctions imposed in response to ‘beatings, sexual assault and torture of Palestinians’, foreign minister Wong alleges

Crikey

Rupert’s legal argument finally drops the facade that News was ever a news business at all

‘In the end, Rupert Murdoch is just another king, on a lonely throne, ruling an empire of cards, scheming, ever scheming, to keep doing so even from the grave.’

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