Tag Archives: Lachlan Murdoch

The New York Times reports: A Nevada commissioner ruled resoundingly against Rupert Murdoch’s attempt to change his family’s trust to consolidate his eldest son Lachlan’s control of his media empire and lock in Fox News’s right-wing editorial slant, according to a sealed court document obtained by The New York Times. The commissioner, Edmund J. Gorman Jr., concluded in a decision …

Axios reports: Lachlan Murdoch, who last week succeeded his father Rupert as chairman of both Fox Corp. and News Corp., over the weekend traveled to Kyiv to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyl. Fox News remains the most powerful source of information for Republicans, a majority of whom have soured on continuing to fund Ukraine’s war with Russia. Murdoch was …

Agence France-Presse reports: Fox Corporation chief executive Lachlan Murdoch on Friday dropped a high-profile defamation case against an Australian website that accused his family’s conservative media empire of fueling the 2021 US Capitol riots. Lawyers for the Crikey website said that Murdoch, the eldest son of billionaire Rupert Murdoch, had abruptly “discontinued his defamation case” eight months into legal proceedings. …

NBC News reports: A Fox Corp. shareholder sued Rupert Murdoch, Lachlan Murdoch and several members of the Fox Corp. board of directors in Delaware on Tuesday afternoon, arguing that they violated their fiduciary duty to the company when they allowed Fox News to broadcast election conspiracy theories. The derivative action — a kind of lawsuit brought by shareholders who believe …

The Guardian reports: Lachlan Murdoch’s application to have parts of Crikey’s defence about Fox News’s role in the January 6 riot dismissed has failed in a pre-trial hearing in the federal court. In August the co-chair of News Corp filed proceedings for defamation against the Australian independent news site over an article by its politics editor, Bernard Keane, headlined “Trump …

Australia’s Crikey reports: Private Media has filed its defence to the defamation claim made by Lachlan Murdoch [photo] against the company and its journalists. Since the beginning, our intention has been to bring the use of defamation law by the rich and powerful into the light, so we wanted to explain the key points of our legal defence and what …

The New York Times reports: Lachlan Murdoch, the chief executive of the Fox Corporation, filed a defamation lawsuit against an Australian news site on Tuesday, a day after the outlet challenged him to make good on his threats to sue over a column that claimed links between the Murdoch family and the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Mr. Murdoch, the son …

The Guardian reports: Lachlan Murdoch has been invited to appear before a reconvened Senate inquiry into YouTube’s temporary ban on Sky News Australia for uploading videos in breach of the platform’s Covid misinformation policy. If the co-chairman of News Corp accepts he will appear alongside his Sky News Australia presenters Alan Jones, Rita Panahi and Rowan Dean who have already …

NBC News reports: Fox Corp. CEO Lachlan Murdoch said Thursday it is the job of Fox News to serve as the opposition to the Biden administration, stating clearly the political biases of a network that until 2017 billed itself as “fair and balanced.” Speaking at a Morgan Stanley investor conference, Murdoch said Fox News stood to benefit from Biden’s presidency …

Forbes Magazine reports: The Bel-Air, French chateau-style mansion and estate made famous by TV’s The Beverly Hillbillies sold for $150 million, setting a California price record⁠—with the new owner reported to be Lachlan Murdoch, son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch. Known as the Chartwell Mansion, the property’s exterior was featured in the opening credits of The Beverly Hillbillies, which ran …