A royal commission into the influence of the Murdoch media empire is almost certainly dead, according to the outgoing co-chair of the campaign for one. Australians for a Murdoch Royal Commission ...

Murdoch-watchers were reeling over the weekend from a one-two punch of revelatory features — in The New York Times Magazine and The Atlantic — which have shifted our understanding of the ...

If there’s one name synonymous with media power, political influence, and high-stakes family drama, it’s Rupert Murdoch. The man is more than just a billionaire media tycoon—he’s a kingmaker.

James Murdoch was seated at a conference table in a Manhattan law office in March 2024 when he realized he was witnessing the final dissolution of his family. Three months earlier, his father ...

A court has ruled against Rupert Murdoch's effort to change his family's trust to give one of his sons control of his media empire and ensure Fox News maintains its conservative editorial slant ...

The plan was laid as an apparent attempt to protect the right-wing bent of the Murdoch family’s media empire—especially Fox News. Media Reporter Rupert Murdoch lost his initial bid to amend ...

Rupert Murdoch‘s eyebrow-raising attempt to restructure the family trust that governs Fox Corp. and News Corp. was rebuked last week in probate court in Las Vegas, thwarting — at least for now ...

Rupert Murdoch stepped back from running his empire in 2023, and handed the role of chair of News Corp to his eldest son, Lachlan, who also stayed on as CEO of Fox Corp, and is seen as the Murdoch ...

LOS ANGELES, Sept 16 (Reuters) - A battle over control of Rupert Murdoch’s global television and publishing empire begins Monday in a Reno, Nevada courtroom, where a judge will consider the ...

The fight for the future of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire begins Monday in a Nevada courtroom. The 93-year-old media titan is petitioning to change his irrevocable family trust to ensure his ...

When Rupert Murdoch surveyed the Republican National Convention from his box in the Milwaukee arena, he was, as usual, hard to read. At 93, his face has settled into a mask of vulpine repose ...

By J. Edward Moreno Rupert Murdoch, the 93-year-old media tycoon, spent the past 70 years building a global media empire that gave him influence in journalism, politics and pop culture.