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In 1952, Rupert Murdoch inherited The News, a tabloid newspaper based in Adelaide, South Australia, after the death of his father Keith.In the years following, he acquired several newspapers in the United Kingdom and the United States, including News of the World, The Sun, the New York Post, and founded Sky News and Fox News.
Lachlan Keith Murdoch (/ l ɒ k l ə n /; [1] born 8 September 1971) is a British-born Australian-American businessman and mass media heir. He is the son of the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. He is the executive chairman of Nova Entertainment, chairman of News Corp, executive chairman and CEO of Fox Corporation.
Rupert Murdoch has stepped down as chairman of Fox News and News Corp, naming his son Lachlan Murdoch as his successor Real-life Succession: Who’s who in Rupert Murdoch’s family as he hands ...
Murdoch's elder son Lachlan, formerly the Deputy Chief Operating Officer at the News Corporation and publisher of the New York Post, was Murdoch's heir apparent before resigning from his executive posts at the global media company at the end of July 2005. [220]
Business magnate and media mogul Rupert Murdoch, 92, ... agreeing to be his heir. But during Lachlan’s decade overseas, his younger brother, the now 50-year-old James, became the heir apparent. ...
Rupert Murdoch has stepped down as chairman of Fox News and News Corp, naming his son Lachlan Murdoch as his successor
A real-life "Succession" battle for Rupert Murdoch's media empire has ended with a Nevada court commissioner denying the billionaire's bid to change a family trust and give control to his eldest son.
Rupert Murdoch at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, 2007. Murdoch made his first acquisition in the United States in 1973, when he purchased the San Antonio Express-News. Soon afterwards, he founded a US supermarket tabloid Star, and in 1976, he purchased the New York Post. [14] In 1981, Murdoch acquired the London Times and ...