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News Articles: Rupert Murdoch

From left: One of the people is the Queen of Christmas. Can you guess which?

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Something big collapsed this week — again. Do you know what? Take our quiz

This week, we had news of a drawing that may or may not be the president's, and of a rock that may or may not indicate that Mars had life.

September 12, 2025
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By:
  • Holly J. Morris
Rupert Murdoch is ensuring the handoff of power to his oldest son Lachlan, ending a saga over the control of News Corp. and Fox News. Father and son are seen here in July 2017, as they attended the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho.

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  • Media

Who is Lachlan Murdoch, the anointed media tycoon?

His position in leading News Corp. and Fox is now secure, as his father ends a dramatic succession battle. Lachlan grew up in New York City but has lived in Australia for much of his adult life.

September 10, 2025
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
Rupert Murdoch has settled a legal battle with three of his children over the fate of his media empire after his death. Known as a conservative power broker, Murdoch visited President Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on February 03, 2025.

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  • Media

Rupert Murdoch buys out 3 of his children to seal fate of his media empire

The owner of Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and dozens of other media properties has settled a legal fight with three of his own children over who would control his companies after his death.

September 08, 2025
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  • David Folkenflik
President Trump is embraced by media mogul Rupert Murdoch during a 2017 dinner in New York to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea during World War II.

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  • Media

Trump lawsuit against Murdoch and 'Wall Street Journal' turns personal

Trump says he personally told his "very good friend Rupert Murdoch" that he had not sent a racy birthday greeting two decades ago to Jeffrey Epstein. Murdoch's Journal reported it anyway.

July 29, 2025
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By:
  • David Folkenflik
Prince Harry pursued a legal case against Rupert Murdoch's British tabloids for years, saying he wanted to hold them accountable for invasions of privacy.

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  • Media

Prince Harry settles with Murdoch's British tabloids as trial is about to begin

Prince Harry has agreed to settle his lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch's British tabloids. The deal ends a years' long battle to hold the newspapers accountable for invasions of privacy.

January 22, 2025
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  • David Folkenflik
Prince Harry is suing Rupert Murdoch's British tabloids, saying they illegally obtained personal information about him over many years. He has blamed the media, and particularly Murdoch's papers, for an increasing divide among the royal family.

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  • Media

Prince Harry's case against Rupert Murdoch's British tabloids goes to trial

A trial begins Tuesday over complaints filed by Prince Harry and a senior British lawmaker against Rupert Murdoch's tabloid newspapers. The trial carries high stakes on both sides of the Atlantic.

January 20, 2025
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  • David Folkenflik
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, shown here with his wife Sarah in 2023, says Rupert Murdoch's U.K. tabloids hacked into his voicemails and documents to learn private information about him and his family. A 2011 police memo shows Washington Post CEO Will Lewis, then working for Murdoch, cited a security threat involving Brown as a reason to delete company emails.

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  • Media

Former U.K. Prime Minister says Bezos should reconsider 'Washington Post' publisher

Former U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown says Washington Post CEO Will Lewis told police a "clearly fabricated" account in 2011 to justify destroying emails amid a scandal. Lewis denies wrongdoing.

August 02, 2024
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  • David Folkenflik
Scotland Yard is reviewing allegations against the Washington Post's publisher and CEO, Will Lewis, shown here at a conference in 2017. The preliminary inquiry centers on Lewis' actions while an executive for Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper company.

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  • Media

U.K. police reviewing accusations against 'Washington Post' publisher

British police are reviewing allegations that Washington Post CEO Will Lewis obstructed justice when he worked for media mogul Rupert Murdoch in the U.K. 13 years ago.

August 01, 2024
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  • David Folkenflik
Right-wing personality Tucker Carlson laughs as he stands alongside Congressman Byron Donalds, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, and vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance on the first day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

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  • Media

Too toxic for Fox News, Tucker Carlson snags a key role at GOP convention

Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch has been considered a kingmaker in Republican circles. Now two men he shunned — former President Donald Trump and former Fox star Tucker Carlson — are in the spotlight.

July 18, 2024
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  • David Folkenflik
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch (right) rides with Will Lewis, then the general manager of Murdoch's News International and now <em>The Washington Post</em>'s CEO, in July 2011.

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  • Media

Rupert Murdoch and new 'Washington Post' CEO accused of cover-up in hacking scandal

For the first time, the media titan was accused in court of knowing about a massive British tabloid-hacking scandal and helping to cover it up. The new leader of The Washington Post was named too.

March 21, 2024
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  • David Folkenflik
In this Oct. 3, 2019 file photo, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg gestures to students before she speaks at Amherst College in Amherst, Mass., on Oct. 3, 2019. Ginsburg is being remembered during ceremonies at the Supreme Court on Friday, March 17, 2023.

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  • Law

RBG award ceremony canceled amid controversy over recipients

Rupert Murdoch, Elon Musk and junk bond creator Michael Milken were among the recipients of the 2024 Ruth Bader Ginsburg Leadership Award.

March 19, 2024
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  • Emma Bowman and
  • Alina Hartounian
Will Lewis speaks in July 2017, when he was the publisher of <em>The Wall Street Journal</em> and CEO of Dow Jones.

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  • Media

New 'Washington Post' CEO accused of Murdoch tabloid hacking cover-up

Lawyers for Prince Harry and Hugh Grant have alleged in court that The Washington Post's next CEO helped the Murdochs clean up after illegal phone-hacking incidents at their British tabloids.

December 20, 2023
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  • David Folkenflik
Rupert Murdoch, shown in London in July 2011, sought for years to acquire full control of Sky. His British newspaper arm now faces allegations its tabloids hacked into Cabinet ministers' voice mails to pressure them to allow the deal to go through.

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  • Media

Ex-British officials say Murdoch tabloids hacked them to aid corporate agenda

Ex-U.K. cabinet ministers allege Murdoch's tabloids hacked their voicemails for salacious scoops to try to intimidate them from blocking its takeover of a satellite TV firm.

December 05, 2023
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  • David Folkenflik
A banner displayed in April at the Fox News headquarters in New York.

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  • Media

Fox isn't in the apology business. That could cost it a ton of money

When Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch addressed investors on Tuesday, he did not apologize for the events that led to a $787 million settlement over the broadcasting of election-related falsehoods.

May 09, 2023
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  • David Folkenflik
Prince William and Prince Harry walk after viewing tributes for the late Queen Elizabeth II outside Windsor Castle last September. Court papers say Prince William received "a very large sum of money" in a 2020 phone hacking settlement with the British newspaper arm of Rupert Murdoch's media empire. Prince Harry alleges in another lawsuit that Murdoch newspaper employees hacked into royals' phones.

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  • Europe

Prince William got a 'very large sum' in a Murdoch settlement in 2020

Prince William received a large payout in 2020 from Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper arm in an alleged phone hacking case, according to court documents made public Tuesday.

April 25, 2023
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  • Lauren Frayer
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