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In-depth look at Rupert Murdoch's successor, Lachlan Murdoch

Rupert Murdoch’s eldest son Lachlan will become the sole chair of News Corp. while continuing his role as CEO of Fox Corp., two multi-billion-dollar media companies.

The Street

A look into the valuation of Fox, News Corp., and Lachlan Murdoch's family fortune

Fox News, part of Fox Corp.’s $14B conservative news empire, is one slice of Lachlan Murdoch’s billion-dollar dynastic fortune.

The Street

AFR’s power list goes deep fake with the likes of Sam Kerr and Margot Robbie to make a point

The AFR’s AI images seem to have missed the mark, this week, while Sky News might just be seeing the light when it comes to climate change

The Guardian - AU

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Murdoch’s nepo baby, asteroid samples and a marathon record – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

The Guardian - UK

The Mail and the Telegraph owned by the same man? It would be a disaster for the UK’s free press

I like Lord Rothermere, but a media landscape dominated by a few powerful figures is a grave threat to our democracy, says the Conservative MP David Davis

The Guardian - UK

What is the climate crisis doing to Australia’s weather extremes? A Coalition frontbencher gets it ‘patently wrong’

Rising risk of heatwaves and bushfires means politicians will be put to the test about the effect of the climate crisis. Already, some have roundly failed

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: universities sink in world rankings, Qatar in new flight talks, inside Murdoch’s empire

‘Red-light warning’ as Australian institutions have slip down the league table, and bureaucrats have agreed to hold to clear-the-air talks on airline routes

The Guardian - AU

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The truth about Rupert Murdoch’s legacy

Letters: Hero or villain? Opposing views of the media mogul, from Alex Singleton and Richard Ehrlich

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Michael Wolff joins the Standard: ‘Lachlan is inheriting a media empire and a poisoned chalice’

Michael Wolff, the foremost political journalist in America, exclusively joins the Standard

Evening Standard

‘Lachlan Murdoch is a Hamlet figure’: Michael Wolff unpicks the real-life succession drama

The author has returned to the Murdoch empire for his latest book, after a bestselling trilogy on Trump. He discusses power, politics, the media and why a person can be a moron and a genius

The Guardian - UK

Just how bad is Dan Andrews’ financial legacy?

As the Victorian premier hangs up his hat, he leaves a state with blistering debt, project cost blowouts, and a lack of transparency.

Crikey

What should we hear when we hear the word ‘elite’?

It used to be that the word suggested superiority. Now it’s considered a character slur, its current noxious position sitting right beside ‘woke’.

Crikey

Trump claims Fox News is suffering from laryngitis

‘Fox News was our VOICE, but sadly, that VOICE has developed a serious case of Laryngitis!!!’ former president writes

The Independent UK

Trump appears to confuse George W Bush with his brother Jeb in rambling speech

‘They thought (Jeb) Bush because Bush supposedly was a military person. You know what…? He got us into the Middle East’

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Evening Standard

Does Lachlan have the cojones to take on his father’s empire?

Whereas Rupert is passionate about newspapers, being an inky through and through, Lachlan has displayed relatively little interest in them

Salon

MAGA media is more depraved than Murdoch

Joe Rogan, Steve Bannon, and Charlie Kirk are ready to rot the brains of GOP voters even more

Crikey

The COVID inquiry you have when you’re not having a COVID inquiry

The PM’s inquiry into how Australia handled the pandemic gets a spray from Crikey readers — as does Rupert Murdoch.

The Guardian - UK

The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire by Michael Wolff review – a succession of absurdities

A forensic holding to account of Rupert Murdoch and the power of Fox News is desperately needed, but this isn’t it

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‘Succession’ star Brian Cox slams Rupert Murdoch’s claim that his media empire is committed to ‘freedom’: ‘Freedom for what? Freedom to manipulate?’

Murdoch said his eldest son, who he named his successor last week, was “committed to the cause” of championing free speech.

The Independent UK

Brian Cox jokes Rupert Murdoch has been ‘watching too much Succession’ as son Lachlan takes over

Scottish actor played Murdoch-inspired character of Logan Roy on HBO drama

The Guardian - AU

Brian Cox on Rupert Murdoch’s succession plan: ‘the freedom to manipulate’

Succession actor jokes Murdoch may have watched ‘too much’ of the TV series and criticises claim that global media empire is committed to ‘freedom’

The Guardian - AU

The Murdoch story is the endless pursuit of control, power and profit – Rupert’s resignation is unlikely to change that

Despite being deeply ensconced in global media, business and political circles, Rupert Murdoch likes to portray himself as an outsider ‘sticking it’ to the elites

Crikey

‘A privilege to work for one of the greatest Australians’: highlights from the Rupert Murdoch hagiography

From ex-PMs to ecstatic employees, the words of praise for Rupert Murdoch came thick and fast in News Corp publications.

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: Wallabies mauled in Rugby World Cup, youth crime abuse link revealed, asteroid sample returns

Australia has suffered a heavy defeat to Wales to end its Rugby World Cup campaign in the first round

The Guardian - UK

Job for Australian ex-PM fuels fears over direction of Murdoch media empire under son Lachlan

Dismay as mogul’s successor nominates Tony Abbott, a climate change sceptic, to board of Fox Corporation

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