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The Latest Breaking News from Lachlan Murdoch

Key takeaways from Michael Wolff’s book on Murdoch, Fox and US politics

Here’s what we’ve learned so far from the eagerly awaited book The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty

The Guardian - US

Mark Humphries’ comedy sketch cut from 7.30 in ABC’s latest cost-cutting drive

Satirical sketches axed due to ‘tight budgetary environment’. Plus: ABC managing director David Anderson gains another term

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: Ita Buttrose to step down as ABC chair; Mark Latham quits One Nation; and Lachlan Murdoch pays $1.3m

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Lachlan Murdoch pays Crikey $1.3m in legal costs over dropped defamation suit

Fox Media chief executive pays costs on condition that almost $600,000 in crowdfunding raised by Crikey will be donated to press freedom group

The Guardian - AU

Rupert Murdoch dating again, four months after breaking off engagement

The media mogul met Elena Zhukova at a family party and the couple have been cruising together in the Mediterranean for several weeks

The Guardian - AU

How Fox uses the World Cup and Masked Singer to keep Fox News on air

The company leverages hit shows to hike the price it charges cable companies to carry its channels

The Guardian - US

Amid Flurry of Lawsuits, Fox Legal Head Viet Dinh Steps Down

Executive gets lump-sum payment of $23 million

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A former Fox executive now argues Murdoch is unfit to own TV stations

Preston Padden helped Rupert Murdoch launch the Fox broadcast network in the 1990s. Now he argues Murdoch has proved unfit to hold the license for a Philadelphia station.

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Fox Reports Higher Q4 Net Income

Advertising revenue down 4%, affiliate revenue up 3%

Broadcasting & Cable

Tucker Carlson reveals what he claims to be real reason he was fired from Fox News

Fox ‘agreed to take me off the air, my show off the air, as a condition of the Dominion settlement,’ Carlson tells biographer

The Independent UK

Tucker Carlson claims in book Fox News firing was part of $787.5m settlement

Former prime-time host tells biographer he ‘knows’ firing was part of deal to resolve Dominion Voting Systems defamation case

The Guardian - US

Group Challenges Fox’s License To Operate WTXF Philadelphia

Former Fox executive Preston Padden says Rupert Murdoch knew the company was broadcasting false information about the 2020 election

Multichannel News

Politicians and members of the media rub shoulders at Murdoch annual party

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer were among those attending the event at Spencer House in London on Thursday.

The Independent UK

Oregon is invested in Fox Corp. and is investigating its board over bogus election fraud claims

Oregon’s attorney general has announced she has begun investigating the board of directors of Fox Corp. for breaching its fiduciary duties by allowing Fox News to broadcast false claims about the 2020 presidential election

The Independent UK

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Kerry Stokes’ gamble on Ben Roberts-Smith backfires as Seven bets on Bruce Lehrmann

The former Coalition staffer, who denies claims by Brittany Higgins, will appear on Seven’s Spotlight program on Sunday to tell ‘his side of the story’. Plus: Crikey celebrates a legal win

The Conversation

A win for the press, a big loss for Ben Roberts-Smith: what does this judgment tell us about defamation law?

At the heart of the spectacular defamation trial brought by decorated Australian soldier Ben Roberts-Smith were two key questions.

The Conversation

Sumner Redstone: the other media baron who inspired Succession was more toxic and dysfunctional than Logan Roy

Just before the third season of the hit HBO television show Succession began, the show’s creator, Jesse Armstrong, was asked (again) what it was about real-life media tycoons Sumner Redstone and Rupert Murdoch that drove him to create a TV series about a fictional media family that bore some resemblances…

Broadcasting & Cable

Fox News Ponders Major Post Tucker Carlson Primetime Shakeup: Sean Hannity Moves to 8 p.m., Laura Ingraham Out (Breathless Reports)

With its trademark siren blaring, the Drudge Report also says Jesse Waters and Greg Gutfeld will get primetime promotions

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Roger Ailes’s widow says Murdochs have ‘wreaked havoc’ on Fox News

Wife of former CEO forced out over sexual harassment allegations says Rupert Murdoch lacks her husband’s ‘genius’

The Independent UK

Roger Ailes’s wife publicly attacks the Murdochs amid Tucker Carlson fallout

Elizabeth Ailes refers to Rupert Murdoch’s sons as characters from English nursery rhyme

The Independent UK

Fox News hit with new defamation lawsuit after massive settlement

Nina Jankowicz was former executive director of government division dealing with disinformation threats to national security

The Independent UK

Lachlan Murdoch explains why Fox News settled Dominion case for $787m

Lachlan Murdoch says Fox paid $787m to settle a lawsuit on its reporting to avoid a divisive trial and lengthy appeals process

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Jury finds Donald Trump sexually abused columnist E Jean Carroll

Verdict for first time legally brands a former US president as a sexual predator but clears Trump of rape. Plus, can New York’s Carbone survive its own success?

The Independent UK

Lachlan Murdoch explains settlement, says no change at Fox

Lachlan Murdoch says Fox paid $787 million to settle a lawsuit on its reporting to avoid a divisive trial and lengthy appeals process

Broadcasting & Cable

Lachlan Murdoch: After Huge Dominion Settlement, Fox News Faces a 'Fundamentally Different' Legal Challenge With Smartmatic

Unlike with Dominion, CEO says Fox will be able to tout its First Amendment rights as a 'news organization' as it faces another libel suit from another voting machine maker

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