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RUPERT MURDOCH PRESENTED a succession plan at media-entertainment conglomerate 21st Century Fox yesterday, passing his chief executive job to his son James and another key role to son Lachlan.
A source close to the company confirmed the plan to AFP, saying James Murdoch would assume the CEO job while elder brother Lachlan would become executive chairman.
The plan is to be presented next week to the board of directors, the source said.
But the 84-year-old Australian-born US citizen who built the global empire does not plan a complete exit.
“Rupert Murdoch is expected to relinquish the CEO role but remain executive chairman and continue to drive the company’s agenda,” the person said.
Lachlan Murdoch is expected to be named executive co-chairman and he will work in close partnership with James Murdoch… The two of them will be a team and run the company together.
The timing of the plan is not clear. But CNBC, which first reported the news, said the change would take place later this year or in early 2016.
James Murdoch, 42, will take over day to day management at the New York-based company, which operates the Fox studios in Hollywood, and Fox’s television operations in the US and around the world.
The cable news channel, which competes with CNN and MSNBC, will continue to be run by its president Roger Ailes, “reporting directly to Rupert Murdoch,” according to Fox News.
21st Century Fox was created two years ago when Murdoch split the struggling publishing operations from his News Corp. empire from the faster-growing media and entertainment operations.
Rupert Murdoch and his family remained in control of both companies after the split. He is executive chairman at News Corp. with his son Lachlan, 43, listed as co-chairman.
At Fox, Rupert Murdoch holds the title of chairman and chief executive, with Chase Carey president and chief operating officer and James Murdoch sitting on the board.
According to the source, Carey was expected to stay “in an advisory role” after the succession plan is implemented.
Who is Rupert Murdoch?
Rupert Murdoch has spent a lifetime building his News Corp empire from a single Australian newspaper he inherited.
He moved to London where his purchase of the weekly News of the World in 1969 gave him a high-profile foothold in the British market.
He went on to buy The Sun, a daily which he turned into a popular and big-selling tabloid.
The success of his popular newspapers helped finance his 1981 purchase of The Times and Sunday Times, prestigious broadsheets, despite intense opposition from parts of Britain’s establishment.
He relocated to the United States where more bold acquisitions followed and where he became a naturalized US citizen in 1985.
The empire came under pressure in recent years from the slump in newspaper revenues and a scandal in Britain which led to the shutdown of News of the World after the revelation the tabloid hacked into the phones of a murdered teenager and the families of dead soldiers.
Murdoch shut the News of the World in July 2011 following public revulsion that it had hacked the voicemail of a schoolgirl, Milly Dowler, who was later found murdered.
News UK has paid out millions in out of court settlements including £2 million to Dowler’s family.
The News Corp split in 2013 was aimed at “unlocking value” in the print and entertainment operations.
In the latest quarter, Fox reported net income of $975 million on revenues of $6.5 billion.
The company also operates National Geographic Channels and local television stations, along with a stake in Britain’s Sky satellite television service.
News Corp – which owns Wall Street Journal parent Dow Jones – reported a profit of $23 million on $2 billion in revenues over the same period.
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Who gives a fox?
People who care about who controls our media and news?
Cue the idiots and comparisons to a certain Irish media mogul.
Yea Gabbi because the Irish “media mogul” story is complicate fabrication.
Cue the post by Gabbi/right wing which turns out to be another fabricated story.
Our media today : All a big lie and based on deception.
Non-Official Cover” – Respected German Journalist Blows Whistle on How the CIA Controls the Media
Udo Ulfkotte, a former editor of one of Germany’s main daily publications, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Whether you want to admit it or not, CIA control of the media in the U.S. and abroad is not conspiracy theory, it is conspiracy fact.
http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2014/10/08/non-official-cover-respected-german-journalist-blows-whistle-on-how-the-cia-controls-the-media/
These 6 Corporations Control 90% Of The Media In America
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america-2012-6#ixzz3cpusgLyU
http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america-2012-6
Nothing will change – unfortunately.
I wonder what his fit much younger wife seen in him
“The cable news channel which competes with CNN & MSNBC” lol good one, it hasn’t been a completion for years, Fox News continually dominates the others in ratings. It’s not even close.
Fox was set for right wing views…if you agree with them or not is up to you but it makes me laugh to see people going mad about Fox News….why watch it so? Plenty of other stations. I listen to Alex Jones now and then, he talk alot of trash but aside from that their is much truth in the stories he covers that you won’t hear on mainstream media.
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