How Rupert Murdoch Built an Empire and Broke His Family : Fresh Air

Rupert Murdoch’s family blood sport

A new exposé reveals how he governed his family, his business and the world, unable to tell them apart

How Rupert Murdoch built an empire and broke his family : Fresh Air

We go inside the real succession story within the Murdoch family media empire. It includes Fox News, The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post. In 2023 Rupert Murdoch chose his eldest son and most conservative child, Lachlan, as his successor – buying out three of his other children from the family trust and estranging them in the process. “His dream was to build a family business. And what he built was a business that destroyed his family,”…

How Rupert Murdoch created a media empire - and 'broke' his own family - TPR: The Public's Radio

Journalist Gabriel Sherman has covered the Murdoch family for nearly two decades. In his new book, Bonfire of the Murdochs, he chronicles the protracted public battle for control the family business. The post How Rupert Murdoch created a media empire — and ‘broke’ his own family appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio.

Lachlan Murdoch and the Cold Calculations of Estrangement: Fox Before Family

SEVERED From left: James Murdoch, Elisabeth Murdoch and Lachlan Murdoch in 2007. (Tom Stoddart/Getty Images)ShareSubscribe nowI write The Optionist, a standalone newsletter about IP ripe for adaptation and who reps it. Previously, I summarized 2025’s IP market. Subscribe here for my weekly list of promising books (new and backlist), long-form journalism, short stories, graphic novels and more.Few have traversed the right-wing media landscape as …