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Rupert Murdoch

  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Your QuestionsLucy Warwick-Ching
    How can I ensure my business runs smoothly after my death?

    I would like to pass my business to my eldest son

  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Rupert Murdoch loses attempt to overhaul family trust in bitter legal dispute

    Media mogul’s attempt to put control of his news empire in son Lachlan’s hands is rejected by Nevada court

    Rupert Murdoch
  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
    Phone hacking
    Murdoch’s UK news group settles with almost 40 claimants over alleged phone hacking

    Prince Harry’s lawsuit against media publisher set for trial next year after ‘dramatic reduction’ of outstanding legal claims

    Rupert Murdoch in 2018
  • Friday, 18 October, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Trump tells Murdoch to help him secure US election ‘victory’

    Republican candidate says Fox News should not run negative ads about him before November 5 vote

    Rupert Murdoch and Donald Trump
  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    Rightmove PLC
    Rightmove rejects third offer from Murdoch-owned REA

    Australian property listings group chief says offer for UK rival is a ‘compelling proposition’

    REA chief Owen Wilson sitting in a chair
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    Rightmove PLC
    Murdoch’s REA raises Rightmove bid to nearly £5.9bn

    Revised offer for property listings group follows dismissal of initial approach as ‘opportunistic’

    Rupert Murdoch
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    Due Diligence
    When private equity is the friendly choice Premium content

    Plus, the Nevada court battle over the future of Rupert Murdoch’s empire and how a corporate lawyer won gold at the Paralympics

    Person looks at a laboratory instrument
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    The Big Read
    The Murdoch succession saga reaches its ‘end game’

    The tycoon’s attempt to wrest control of his empire away from three of his children is set to be resolved in a Nevada court

    Prudence, Elisabeth, James, Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch
  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    Rightmove PLC
    Rightmove rejects £5.6bn offer from Murdoch’s REA

    Property listings company rebuffs initial approach from company controlled by News Corp

    A laptop screen displaying the Rightmove website, showing properties for sale in Mayfair, Central London
  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    News Corp
    Activist pushes for end of Murdoch voting control at News Corp

    Family shareholdings at media conglomerate under fresh scrutiny as Rupert Murdoch seeks to transfer power to son

    Rupert Murdoch
  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    LexNews Corp
    The New York Times is an imperfect model for the Murdochs Premium content

    ‘Gray Lady’ provides both an example and a cautionary tale for News Corp share structure

    NYT and WSJ on news stand
  • 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’

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