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Rupert Murdoch

  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Succession lessons of the Murdochs’ dynastic drama

    Why getting generational handovers right matters to more than just the family

    An older man and his adult son walk in a park
  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    Murdochs split as legal battle looms over control of family trust

    Court to decide whether patriarch’s move to hand power to his oldest son is in good faith

    Rupert Murdoch, left, speaking to Senator Lindsey Graham at the Republican National Convention this month
  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2024
    News in-depth
    From kingmaker to spectator: Murdoch consigned to Republican sidelines

    93-year-old media mogul’s influence has been tested in elections on three continents

    Rupert Murdoch at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
    Jo Ellison
    Marriage à la Rupert Murdoch

    When it comes to love, what cosy webs billionaires do weave

  • Sunday, 2 June, 2024
    Rupert Murdoch marries for a fifth time in California ceremony

    Media tycoon weds molecular biologist Elena Zhukova at his Bel Air vineyard

    Rupert Murdoch and his bride sit next to each other on a white sofa
  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    Prince Harry
    Prince Harry fails in attempt to include Rupert Murdoch in phone hacking trial

    Court also rejects amendment to expand case to add allegations that Duchess of Sussex was also targeted

    Prince Harry in June 2023
  • Tuesday, 9 April, 2024
    News Group Newspapers Ltd
    Murdoch’s UK empire hit by a further £51mn in costs over phone hacking

    With court action still ongoing, the media group’s bill for the scandal has now reached about £1bn in settlements and legal costs

    A customer looks at a copy of The Sun newspaper featuring a front page article about King Charles III’s cancer diagnosis
  • Thursday, 4 April, 2024
    The Trump machine
    The uneasy truce between Donald Trump and Fox News

    A network emblematic of the American right has forged a delicate new relationship with the former president

    Montage of cutout images of Donald Trump with Rupert Murdoch on one side and Lachlan Murdoch on the other
  • Wednesday, 20 March, 2024
    Phone hacking
    UK politicians and celebrities seek to drag Murdoch into court battle

    Alleged victims of phone hacking claim media tycoon was aware of wrongdoing at UK newspapers

  • Wednesday, 13 March, 2024
    ReviewTheatre
    Corruption, Lincoln Center — energetic drama lifts the lid on the UK’s phone-hacking scandal

    JT Rogers’ new play in New York is a breathless account of a complex story

    Two men and a woman pore over a laptop on a desk; projected behind them is the masthead for the News of the World newspaper
  • Tuesday, 5 March, 2024
    Media
    Rupert Murdoch’s TalkTV to close terrestrial channel

    Studios being repurposed to provide online video content for wider News UK titles

    Rupert Murdoch
  • Saturday, 10 February, 2024
    Media
    Piers Morgan’s change of programme hits Rupert Murdoch’s TV dream

    Outspoken presenter is moving his ‘Uncensored’ show from TalkTV to YouTube

    TalkTV logo, Piers Morgan and Rupert Murdoch
  • 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
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