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Lachlan Murdoch is a British-born Australian-American businessman and media heir. He is the son of Rupert Murdoch and the executive chairman of several media companies, including Fox Corporation and News Corp.
Sep 21, 2023 · The appointment of Lachlan Murdoch as chairman of Fox and News Corp solidifies his position as one of the most powerful media barons in the world. What do we know about Rupert Murdoch's...
Sep 23, 2023 · Lachlan Murdoch, the eldest son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, was groomed to take over the family empire from a young age. He faced competition from his siblings, a rebellious phase and a scandal in Australia, before becoming the chairman of News Corp and the CEO of Fox Corp.
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Lachlan Murdoch (born September 8, 1971, London, England) British-American media executive who was set to take sole control of the global media empire built by his father, the Australian-American media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, after the latter announced in September 2023 his imminent retirement. At the time of his father’s announcement, Lachlan Murdo...
Lachlan Murdoch is the third child and eldest son of Rupert Murdoch; his mother is Rupert’s second wife, the Scottish journalist Anna Maria Murdoch (née Torv). Lachlan spent most of his childhood in New York City, where he attended the elite private schools the Dalton School and Trinity School. In 1994 he graduated from Princeton University with a ...
After graduating from Princeton, Lachlan Murdoch went to work in the family business, starting out in newspaper companies in Australia and eventually ascending to the chair of News Limited, the holding company for all of the Australian properties of News Corp., the multinational conglomerate founded by his father in 1980. Murdoch later became a deputy chief operating officer of News Corp., in charge of television stations and print publishing operations. Notably, however, he was responsible for a significant business failure resulting from his decision to invest in the telecommunications venture One.Tel, which collapsed in 2001.
Murdoch resigned from News Corp. in 2005 amid disputes with the then head of the Fox News Channel, Roger Ailes. According to the Australian journalist Paddy Manning, the author of The Successor: The High Stakes Life of Lachlan Murdoch (2022), Murdoch left the company because he felt that his father had sided with Ailes against him. He returned to Australia and started an investment firm that put money into different businesses, including media companies and an Indian Premier League cricket team.
Murdoch returned to the family fold in the mid-2010s after a phone-hacking scandal in Great Britain involving News Corp.’s News of the World, which led to the shutdown of that tabloid. “He was watching the family tear itself apart over the phone-hacking scandal,” Manning told the Associated Press in 2023, adding that he was “instrumental in trying to circle the wagons and turn the guns outwards.”
Upon Murdoch’s return, he and his brother, James Murdoch, became cochairs of News Corp. and 21st Century Fox, the latter created in 2013 to take over News Corp.’s television and media holdings. But the two brothers had different visions for their companies’ future as well as different worldviews. James wished to create an international brand that would seem sensible to political centrists and those with a globalist perspective, while Lachlan favored a brand that would promote far-right politics and nationalism.
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Learn about Lachlan Murdoch, the British-American media executive who is set to inherit his father's global media empire. Find out his early life, career, controversies, and personal life.
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Sep 21, 2023 · Murdoch's oldest son, Lachlan, will take over as chairman of News Corp and continue as CEO of Fox. The move comes after a tumultuous year for Fox News, during which it agreed to pay...
Sep 21, 2023 · Lachlan Murdoch, the eldest son of Rupert Murdoch, has been anointed to take over his father’s vast media empire, capping years of rampant media speculation and thinly veiled fraternal...
Lachlan Murdoch is the leader of Fox Corporation, a media company with news, sports and entertainment assets. He has a long history of building, operating and investing in global television and publishing businesses, including News Corp, NOVA Entertainment and 21st Century Fox.
