8 Oct 2023

Murdoch's real life succession becomes reality

From Mediawatch, 9:10 am on 8 October 2023

 

After seven decades up to his neck in media - and having a profound and world wide influence on them - now nonagenarian mega mogul Rupert Murdoch’s starting up the succession plan for his empire. Or is he? We ask an Australian expert who wrote all about this ten years ago when one of Murdoch’s biggest companies was mired in an epic scandal, he’d just been divorced and it looked like the succession was on. So is it now? 

(L to R) Lachlan Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch, and Robert Thompson at the exclusive Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference.

(L to R) Lachlan Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch, and Robert Thompson at the exclusive Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference. Photo: Getty Images/AFP