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‘Despite the frisson of excitement over a few stray comments from James Murdoch over the climate emergency, there’s no reason to assume he’d be significantly different from his father or brother.’

The biggest political obstacle to banning gambling ads is the perceived power of the two remaining Australian media oligarchs: Rupert Murdoch and Kerry Stokes.

‘Decades of framing political clout, of being the ultimate puppeteer, of the privileged lifestyle, all culminating in a Nevada courtroom having alienated three heirs.’

Ahead of their visit to Australia, acclaimed writer Masha Gessen talks to Crikey about their homeland of Russia, the war in Gaza, the upcoming US election, and reasons to be hopeful.

Exclusive: Scotland Yard move on complaint by ex-PM Gordon Brown, who accuses Will Lewis of phone hacking ‘cover-up’ in 2011

In this exclusive extract from his new book, Eric Beecher describes his first exposure to the subterranean world of media moguldom.

Conservative media titan Rupert Murdoch is making news again – this time, with a secretive effort to change an irrevocable trust. That trust has important ownership interests in both Fox Corp. and News Corp., so it affects broadcast news as well as The Wall Street Journal and other publications.

NGN accused of claiming Gordon Brown had seen Rebekah Brooks’s emails to justify deleting millions of messages amid phone-hacking investigation

THE publisher of The Sun has agreed to search for documents that may relate to allegations it invented a “fake security threat” to justify the…