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Media business

November 2024

  • A clock face outside of the London offices of the Daily Mail newspaper in London

    Daily Mail publisher wins ECHR case against ‘success fees’ paid to lawyers

  • Sky logo at company headquarters in Isleworth, west London, as seen in March 2017.

    Sky faces bill for hundreds of millions after advertising blunder

October 2024

  • He stands in open-necked shirt and dark jacket

    Disney says it will name CEO Bob Iger’s second successor in 2026

  • headshot of him wearing glasses

    TV producer Hat Trick pays £4.2m to founder Jimmy Mulville and wife

September 2024

  • Illustration shows the Rightmove logo on a desktop screen and smartphone

    Murdoch-backed REA abandons attempt to take over Rightmove

  • a man in a suit stands behind a microphone with American flags behind him

    Murdoch family drama plays out in court with fate of Fox News at stake

  • Tall new-build apartments and office buildings in and around Leeds Dock

    Rupert Murdoch’s REA group ups offer for Rightmove to £5.9bn

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    Which family drama has Rupert Murdoch in a leading role?

  • Weekly Beast
    Seven’s Andrew O’Keefe coverage turns ugly as goading cameraman crosses a line

    Amanda Meade
  • As the Murdoch succession battle plays out in a US court, a separate fight is brewing over control of News Corp

  • Guardian parent company in talks over potential sale of Observer

  • The new owner of the Spectator didn’t cough up £100m just for the fun of it

    Anne McElvoy
  • Rupert Murdoch-owned firm REA makes £5.6bn offer for Rightmove

  • Why are the Murdochs trying to buy UK property site Rightmove?

August 2024

  • Amanda Meade

    Weekly Beast
    Where’s the beef? Gina Rinehart puts past journalism quarrel aside with pies at the Kennedys

    Amanda Meade
    Mining billionaire, who hasn’t always been on good terms with reporters, bankrolls journalism awards. Plus: cuts continue across media companies

July 2024

  • A very old white man with a mostly bald head and dark-rimmed glasses, wearing an orange lanyard and suit without a tie, looks up from his phone and appears to listen to something likely very far away from where he is sitting.

    Rupert Murdoch goes to war with his children over his media empire

    The move by the billionaire news mogul, 93, could have a ‘real, significant impact’ on the global media landscape
  • Brian Cox as Logan Roy (L) in Succession, and Rupert Murdoch.

    Are the lives of Rupert Murdoch and Succession’s Logan Roy inching closer?

    A secret legal battle between the media mogul and his children is evoking parallels with his TV counterpart
    • Data, dollars and dunks: why NBC, Amazon and ESPN paid $76bn for NBA rights

    • Weekly Beast
      Nine CEO urges staff to ‘get into the Olympic spirit’ – but doesn’t mention he will keep the flame burning in Paris

      Amanda Meade
    • Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Corp launches Netflix rival Tubi in UK

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