The vanity, political machinations and mind games are eye-popping, but it’s the little details that make you most grateful not to be a Murdoch. Unfortunately, their dysfunction is our dysfunction
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In the brittle real-life afterlife to Succession, rifts within the Murdoch family demonstrate how fact can be more tumultuous and twisted than fiction
Presenter was face of the 24-hour news service from day one, but almost everything else has changed for channel since 1989
Duke of Sussex (40) alleged journalists and private investigators working for News Group Newspapers targeted him
Planet Business: Pivots, experiments and the beauty of everyday life all feature in this round-up of the things people said in 2024
Planet Business: Ancient Rome auction update, the Murdoch ‘Succession memo’ and people/muppets who have rung the New York Stock Exchange’s opening bell
Media mogul’s attempt to put control of his news empire in son Lachlan’s hands is rejected by Nevada court
Planet Business: Employers and the menopause, a new global consortium on the information environment, and UK Labour’s unhappiness with its inheritance
REA had until end of September to make firm offer
Rightmove has maintained steady revenue growth in recent years
Presenter welcomes 10% audience climb in his second quarter on Virgin Radio UK, as he surpasses his peak RTÉ listenership
Plus: Cynthia Ní Mhurchú's pay cut, Irish Ambassador to the US gets a profile boost, and Simon Coveney sails again
Laura Slattery on the stories that caught her eye from the Strictly Come Dancing scandal to shorts in the office
Tycoon made a surprise move to change the terms of the Murdochs’ irrevocable family trust
The 93-year-old media mogul’s influence has been tested in elections on three continents
Personnel drama at revered US newspaper has been playing out on its own pages for weeks
From plans to introduce a ‘third newsroom’ to its chief executive’s blunt language at a staff ‘town hall’ meeting, the latest moves by the Washington Post are less than inspiring
Planet Business: Shein’s IPO, a billionaire’s cancelled trip to the moon and Rupert Murdoch’s fifth wedding
Former News Corp chairman (93) weds retired marine biologist Elena Zhukova (67) in California
Newsroom pipe-smoking and the ubiquity of print aside, there is plenty to recognise in this 1969 children’s guide to the industry
The Australian mogul might be one of the most ruthless operators in the media but despite four divorces, he refuses to be jaded about love
Sixth engagement for media mogul (92) comes five months after he announced he was stepping down from his media empire
From flight cancellation misery and forfeited pay to corporation tax hauls and obesity drug bonanzas, everything in 2023 had either a value or a cost
Editor of the Irish Sun succeeds Nóirín Hegarty at the helm of the broadsheet
Coimisiún na Meán says move by Dublin’s Q102 to simulcast presenter’s Virgin Radio UK show will not undermine media plurality
Former RTÉ presenter’s scandal-rocked rollercoaster year leaves him ‘desperately excited’ to be at Rupert Murdoch owned station
Former Daily Telegraph editor had been in the running to bid for British broadsheet
Planet Business: Manchester United’s stake saga, Starboard Value’s thoughts on News Corp and soaps we have known and loved, but not enough
Hugh Linehan: The channel suspended both hosts after Fox’s remarks about Ava Evans. But it owes its existence to such Fox News-style attacks
If Russell Brand says he’s the victim of a conspiracy theory and Rupert Murdoch insists he’s rebel outsider, so-called ‘mainstream media’ must be the true counterculture
Veteran media mogul’s step back may lead to reduced interest in News Corp’s newspaper titles, says former editor of Irish edition of the Sunday Times
The way outgoing patriarch has structured ownership of his assets means the story is not yet over
Amid ‘cracking opportunities’ and post-pandemic resilience, stations are optimistic they can keep listeners in the age of the smart speaker
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