Tag Archives: Lachlan Murdoch

Rupert Murdoch has tightened his family’s grip on his two new companies, News Corp which is based on newspapers including The Times, the Wall Street Journal and most of the papers in Australia, and film and TV business 21st Century ...

WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell has been touring Australia (two days’ worth anyway, it’s only a continent) and one of his duties has been to try to persuade high profile Y&R Brands boss Russell Howcroft (left) not to join Lachlan Murdoch’s ...

Here comes a chopper to chop off your head… Well, Rebekah Brooks’ and Andy Coulson’s heads at any rate. Along with those of 6 other hacks from The News of the World (ob. 2011) and The Sun. It’s career death ...

It’s no great surprise that James Murdoch has chosen to resign as chairman of British pay-TV company BSkyB in the wake of the phone-hacking and other scandals at his dad’s News Corporation (39 per cent owner of BSkyB). James has ...

Rupert Murdoch’s children have been consulting a pyschologist to try to sort out the family succession to dad Rupert, founder, chairman and CEO of $44bn News Corporation, according to a report by Sarah Ellison in Vanity Fair. These family confabs ...

About 80 per cent of non-aligned or independent shareholders do anyway according to this analysis by the BBC’s Robert Peston of votes cast at last Friday’s AGM of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. Nearly as many want elder brother Lachlan to ...

The scene was Brighton, England and embattled UK prime minister Gordon Brown had just tried (and mostly failed) to rally his battered troops. Leading Labour politicos at the party conference were no doubt looking forward to a few sustaining snifters ...

US shareholders in Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation are trying to gang up on Rupert Murdoch, his family and assorted cronies in an assault that, if even partly successful, will surely bring forward the day when the company’s newspapers, source of ...

Well according to the usually conservative Reuters they are. The report has been denied officially by News Corporation, but it could hardly do otherwise. But it finally seems to be dawning on News Corp managers (although this might not include ...