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More companies are releasing annual reports and executive salary data on the same day, yet one media monolith has been conspicuously absent.

Nearly every biographical commentary on Rupert Murdoch notes how he began with a modest inheritance in Adelaide, principally an afternoon newspaper, and built it into a global multimedia empire. Walter Marsh’s book Young Rupert: The Making of the Murdoch Empire has the distinctive strength of knowing Adelaide much better than…

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Fans show their appreciation in a wide variety of ways, from tattoos to gingerbread and baby onesies

The new season of Leon Neyfakh’s Fiasco podcast relives a bleak chapter of US history when a white man became a folk hero after shooting four black youths

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.

Each month, Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have already devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

The latest in a long line of Rupert Murdoch biographies brings to life the mogul’s early dynamism with a surprisingly deft touch and a subtle eye.

The 1958 hearings in which the 27-year-old Murdoch lobbied for his first TV licence offer a glimpse into the global media proprietor he would become