Sky owner Comcast in talks to buy ITV’s broadcasting arm for about £2bn Deal would exclude ITV Studios but would mark major shake-up of UK television The Guardian - UK · Nov 6, 2025
The Sun publisher agrees to pay Christopher Jefferies ‘substantial damages’ Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers apologises for invading privacy of man wrongly arrested for high-profile murder The Guardian - UK · Nov 5, 2025
8 Famous Women Everyone Still Swears Married For Money In the world of celebrity, love stories often come with a side of scandal—and sometimes, a hefty bank account. While many high-profile couples genuinely fall in love, others spark endless speculation about motives. When a famous woman marries a significantly wealthier partner, the public can’t help but wonder: was it… Plunged in Debt · Nov 3, 2025
TalkTV breached impartiality rules with allegations about cancelled local elections, Ofcom finds Claim that elections were cancelled because ministers were ‘terrified of Reform’ given rare rebuke by regulator The Guardian - UK · Nov 3, 2025
M&C Saatchi rejects £50m approach for performance division from Brave Bison Rupert Murdoch-backed Brave Bison has been on the acquisition trail, making five deals so far this year. Evening Standard · Nov 3, 2025
Lachlan Murdoch’s top adviser Siobhan McKenna resigns from News Corp Company’s Australian broadcast chief, who was involved in negotiations over Murdoch family’s succession plans, to depart media giant The Guardian - AU · Oct 30, 2025
‘Cable Cowboy’ John Malone to step down from his media empire Retirement of billionaire, 84, leaves Rupert Murdoch as last of that generation to be actively involved in media business The Guardian - US · Oct 29, 2025
Murdoch’s flagship hails ‘terrifyingly funny’ Succession, without a nod to the family who inspired it The Australian names HBO drama the best TV show of the past 25 years. Plus: reporters in the spotlight at the White House The Guardian - AU · Oct 23, 2025
‘You and the Atom Bomb’: how George Orwell’s 1945 essay predicted the Cold War and nuclear proliferation August 2025 marked the 80th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Just a month after the attacks, on 19 October 1945, George Orwell published an essay in the London Tribune, entitled “You and the Atom Bomb”. In it, he surmised what if “the great nations make… The Conversation · Oct 20, 2025
Malcolm McDowell: ‘I would be a total disaster as a spy – I do love to gossip’ The actor on nailing Rupert Murdoch’s accent, working with Stanley Kubrick and missing old-fashioned dinner parties The Guardian - AU · Oct 4, 2025
The divide: who really profits in today’s economy? Broadway flops despite rising ticket costs, farmers face huge shortfalls largely due to Trump’s tariffs, tech cashes in The Guardian - US · Sep 30, 2025
From Oracle to Paramount to TikTok: How Larry and David Ellison Are Building a New US Media Dynasty Larry and David Ellison lead Paramount Skydance, reshaping the US media landscape through tech integration, major acquisitions, and political scrutiny. International Business Times UK · Sep 29, 2025
The Hack: Where are Andy Coulson and Nick Davies now? Viewers gripped by ITV's The Hack are wondering what happened to the real characters from the show in the aftermath of the scandal Woman & Home · Sep 26, 2025
The U.S. will now actually control TikTok’s algorithm, JD Vance says With the Ellisons (Oracle) and Murdochs (Fox) in the mix, Trump allies are poised to take at least partial control over the app’s recommendation engine. Fortune · Sep 25, 2025
The Conversation · Sep 25, 2025 Friday essay: new revelations of the Murdoch empire’s underbelly – from The Hack’s real-life journalist This is the humblest day of my life, declared Rupert Murdoch to a parliamentary committee on July 19, 2011. This was at the height of what the newspaper historian Roy Greenslade called “the most astonishing 14 days in British press history, with daily shock heaped upon daily shock”.
The Independent UK · Sep 25, 2025 Trump’s deadline call to Rupert Murdoch from Air Force One demanding he kill WSJ story on Epstein birthday note: report Trump and his team desperately tried to get Murdoch and his newspaper to stop the story
The Independent UK · Sep 25, 2025 ‘Bomb went off’: Report reveals moment Epstein files rocked the White House and why Trump is desperate to keep them secret The Trump administration’s handling of the Epstein files fallout was reportedly a summer of ‘disorganization,’ high-stakes strategy meetings in the Situation Room, and a series of ‘errors’
The Guardian - US · Sep 24, 2025 Murdoch’s TikTok? Trump offers allies another lever of media control Under the known terms of the deal with China, TikTok would get a new board, including Murdochs and Ellisons
The Independent UK · Sep 24, 2025 The Hack review – David Tennant is a class act in sprawling ITV phone-hacking drama that tries to do too much 3/5 Jack Thorne, who wrote ‘Toxic Town’ and ‘Adolescence’, is back again with a show that might have worked better as two separate stories
The Conversation · Sep 23, 2025 Lawsuits, cancellations and bullying: Trump is systematically destroying press freedom United States President Donald Trump is well advanced in his systematic campaign to undermine the American media and eviscerate its function of holding him and others in power to account.
The Guardian - AU · Sep 23, 2025 Australia may have to choose between a Chinese TikTok and one owned by Trump’s billionaire backers Expert raises concerns about what US TikTok deal could mean for News Corp’s ‘worrying dominance’ in Australian media
Benzinga · Sep 23, 2025 Gavin Newsom Says Republicans 'Buying Up Platforms' To Control Flow Of News And Information: 'They Are Censoring You In Real Time' California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) on Monday accused Republicans of "buying up platforms to control the news and information you receive," hours after President Donald Trump said tech and media moguls Larry Ellison, Michael Dell and Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch are poised to help take over TikTok's U.S. algorithm as…
The Guardian - US · Sep 22, 2025 Murdoch, Ellison and China: what we know about the US’s TikTok deal TikTok’s future in the US has been in limbo for over year, but Trump says the US and China finally have a deal
The Independent UK · Sep 22, 2025 Wall Street Journal fires back at Trump over Epstein birthday letter lawsuit: ‘The article is true’ Lawyers for Rupert Murdoch and publishers call president’s lawsuit ‘an affront to the First Amendment’
Axios · Sep 22, 2025 White House discloses more details of deal to save TikTok TikTok's new U.S. entity would lease its algorithm from Chinese owner ByteDance.