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    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      News in-depthFox Corporation
      The 2020 legal baggage awaiting Lachlan Murdoch at Fox

      As the new chair completes his takeover, he must contend with unresolved claims hanging over the media company

      Montage of Fox logo and Lachlan Murdoch
    • Friday, 27 October, 2023
      ReviewBiography and memoir
      The Fall by Michael Wolff — a combative view of Murdoch’s endgame

      The biographer returns to the media mogul and finds a once-powerful figure shaded by ‘doubt, ambivalence, regret’

    • Tuesday, 17 October, 2023
      Unhedged
      The Murdoch discount Premium content

      And Citi’s sandwich sacking

      Skyline of skycrapers
    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      Person in the News
      Lachlan Murdoch: now the leading man in a long-running family drama

      Elevation to the top will not stop the new boss of Fox and News Corp from looking over his shoulder

    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast8 min listen
      Rupert Murdoch steps down

      Bank of England decided to hold interest rates at 5.25% yesterday

    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      Rupert Murdoch resolves his own succession drama — for now

      Family and strategic questions may test Lachlan Murdoch as he inherits the influential media empire

      A montage of Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch and the Fox News logo
    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      Rupert Murdoch steps down as chair of Fox and News Corp

      92-year-old media mogul hands over leadership to son Lachlan

      Rupert Murdoch, left, with son Lachlan
    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      Instant InsightMatthew Garrahan
      Lachlan’s accession won’t put an end to Murdoch family strife

      The way outgoing patriarch Rupert has structured ownership of his assets means the story is not yet over

      James, Lachlan, Rupert and Elisabeth Murdoch. There are multiple combinations of alliances among the siblings that could force a change of control
    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      Media
      Rupe’s farewell memo

      Includes pirate energy

    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
      Fox News Network
      Trump’s Republican debate no-show deepens rift with Fox News

      Cable network’s primetime audience has declined by more than 1mn since former US president’s time in office

      Fox News host Bret Baier stands outside the Milwaukee venue for Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate
    • Friday, 11 August, 2023
      Fox Corporation
      Top Fox lawyer and Lachlan Murdoch confidant Viet Dinh to resign

      Departure comes months after $800mn settlement of Dominion Voting Systems claims

      Viet Dinh
    • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
      News in-depthFox Corporation
      ‘Mistake after mistake’: Carlson’s exit caps chaotic year for Murdoch’s Fox

      The removal of a conservative kingmaker has raised questions about the influential media empire’s future

      Montage of Lachlan Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch and Tucker Carlson
    • Friday, 21 April, 2023
      John Gapper
      Rupert Murdoch pays a high price for his Fox News buccaneers

      Settling Dominion’s defamation claim for $787.5mn is the latest expensive blow to the media baron’s style of journalism

      Rupert Murdoch, chair of Fox Corporation
    • Friday, 21 April, 2023
      Television
      Everything you don’t actually need to know about the economics of Succession

      Who owns Waystar? What are the Roys worth? WTF is going on? And other pointless questions, answered

    • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
      News in-depthFox Corporation
      Fox pays high price to end bruising Dominion defamation case

      Murdoch’s media company is outmanoeuvred in litigation that shed unflattering light on its 2020 US election coverage

      John Poulos, Davida Brook, Justin Nelson and Stephen Shackelford
    • Tuesday, 18 April, 2023
      Fox Corporation
      Murdoch’s Fox agrees $787.5mn settlement in Dominion defamation case

      Lawyer for voting machine maker says eleventh-hour deal reached over airing of vote-rigging claims

      A truck drives in front of the courthouse in Wilmington, Delaware
    • Monday, 17 April, 2023
      Fox News Network
      Judge delays Fox defamation case by a day

      Trial involving Dominion voting machines had been scheduled to begin on Monday morning

      A protester wears a shirt that says ‘Fox lies’
    • Friday, 24 March, 2023
      Jo Ellison
      Rupert Murdoch, last of the old romantics

      Will it be fifth time lucky for the nonagenarian billionaire?

      Two people holding hands walk on a beach
    • Monday, 20 March, 2023
      Rupert Murdoch engaged to be married for fifth time

      Ownership of Murdoch family trust expected to be unaffected by union with widow of former radio and TV executive

      Rupert Murdoch
    • Wednesday, 8 March, 2023
      Fox Corporation
      Murdoch predicted ‘riots like never before’ if 2020 US election was overturned

      Media mogul’s comments part of latest filings in defamation case against Fox News over voting fraud claims

      Rupert Murdoch
    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      News in-depthFox News Network
      ‘Panic station at Fox News’: how the Murdochs agonised over Trump’s loss

      Details of network’s handling of US election denialism explode into public view via Dominion lawsuit

      Montage of Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch and Fox News logo
    • Monday, 27 February, 2023
      Fox Corporation
      Murdoch acknowledged some Fox hosts endorsed stolen US election claims

      Lawyers for news channel deny media mogul had an active role in publishing fraud claims at issue in defamation case

      Protesters hold up signs outside Fox News Channel during a protest against the network
    • Tuesday, 21 February, 2023
      News Corp
      News Corp says deal to sell real estate asset has fallen apart

      Rupert Murdoch’s company had been in talks to sell to rival CoStar in a deal valued in the ‘low billions’ of dollars

      Rupert Murdoch
    • Friday, 17 February, 2023
      US Capitol attack
      Fox owner Murdoch called stolen US election claims ‘crazy’, court filings show

      Motion in defamation case details internal concerns about allegations from Donald Trump and his allies

      Rupert Murdoch
    • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
      Lex
      News Corp: value-hunting minorities outFox the Murdochs Premium content

      The task now is to improve flagging valuation

      Logos for Fox programs are displayed on the News Corp building in New York
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