Lachlah Murdoch under the pump at News Corp

Suddenly we find ourselves two years on from Lachlan Murdoch’s (at least official) accession to the leadership of the family media empire, and it’s got a bit of a “dog catches the wagon” vibe about it.

this morning quarterly reports It shows that the US company’s legacy media businesses (especially here in Australia) are seeing revenues drift sideways. Following the family’s attempt to break with Trump in 2021, he is now firmly back to being an avid supporter of presidential talk. Long-time masthead readers have been mourning how News Corp’s trademark front pages have deteriorated from the menacing and entertaining eyebrow-raisers of the Rupert era to predictable and boring.