News Corp touts digital hopes despite Binge bleeding customers

News Corp touts digital hopes despite Binge bleeding customers

Chief executive Robert Thomson says the market is undervaluing the media company,despite it losing Australian subscribers in the first quarter of fiscal 2024.

  • byCalum Jaspan

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Murdoch under pressure from US hedge fund to break up his media empire

Murdoch under pressure from US hedge fund to break up his media empire

Starboard Value,which is run by “the most feared man in corporate America”,has built a stake in News Corp and calls for a spin-off of REA Group,its Australian real estate division.

  • byJames Warrington
Tony Abbott and the meeting of minds at Fox

Tony Abbott and the meeting of minds at Fox

The former conservative prime minister is on track to join Fox Corporation’s board of directors in Lachlan Murdoch’s first major move to stamp his authority as the company’s sole chair.

  • byCalum Jaspan
Here comes the son:Is Lachlan Murdoch up to the job?

Here comes the son:Is Lachlan Murdoch up to the job?

Lachlan Murdoch will succeed his father at the top of the global empire Rupert built over 70 years. Does he have the chops for it?

  • byPaddy Manning
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Rupert Murdoch can’t retire from Fox’s legal woes

Rupert Murdoch can’t retire from Fox’s legal woes

The billionaire’s ‘retirement’ from his controversial media empire might not protect him from litigants such as his fellow News Corp and Fox shareholders.

  • byColin Kruger
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Looking for a book to read? Here are 14 tips for October

Looking for a book to read? Here are 14 tips for October

The Christmas publishing season is really under way. Here are 14 books to satisfy you this month.

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Everyone is saying sorry. If only they actually meant it

Everyone is saying sorry. If only they actually meant it

It used to be the hardest word,but now “sorry” is uttered with ease - especially when it’s an apology for other people’s mistakes.

  • byMalcolm Knox
How Sky News’s US-centric digital play is fracturing its newsroom

How Sky News’s US-centric digital play is fracturing its newsroom

Sky News Australia’s strategy of delivering content toward an increasingly far-right,US-based audience has sparked a divide at the conservative broadcaster.

  • byCalum Jaspan
Rupert Murdoch retires with $220 million golden handshake

Rupert Murdoch retires with $220 million golden handshake

The media mogul will retire with benefits in the hundreds of millions.

  • byKishor Napier-Raman andNoel Towell
I spent time with James and Lachlan. Rupert chose the wrong successor

I spent time with James and Lachlan. Rupert chose the wrong successor

Like his sister Elisabeth,James withdrew himself from the succession. And so now we get Lachlan. For the sake of news,and all of us who consume it,that’s too bad.

  • byGeraldine Brooks