After years of speculation, a retiring Rupert Murdoch has named a successor. But can his inheritor live up to the task?
After years of speculation, a retiring Rupert Murdoch has named a successor. But can his inheritor live up to the task?
At 92, the news that Rupert Murdoch is set to retire from the boards of his companies Fox and News Corporation isn’t exactly shocking, but it is surprising. Like Logan Roy in Succession, the HBO series heavily modelled on Murdoch’s media empire and it’s testy figurehead, Rupert Murdoch has flirted with retirement on and off for some time now, and the question of who was next in line has never been exactly clear. Now we know; Murdoch has named his son Lachlan – the eldest child of Murdoch and Scottish journalist and author Anna Maria dePeyster – as sole executive in charge of his global empire. But how will he fare, and how did Murdoch Snr get here in the first place?
At 92, the news that Rupert Murdoch is set to retire from the boards of his companies Fox and News Corporation isn’t exactly shocking, but it is surprising. Like Logan Roy in Succession, the HBO series heavily modelled on Murdoch’s media empire and it’s testy figurehead, Rupert Murdoch has flirted with retirement on and off for some time now, and the question of who was next in line has never been exactly clear. Now we know; Murdoch has named his son Lachlan – the eldest child of Murdoch and Scottish journalist and author Anna Maria dePeyster – as sole executive in charge of his global empire. But how will he fare, and how did Murdoch Snr get here in the first place?
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