Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch’s shock announcement Thursday that he is stepping down as chief of his two firms leaves his son Lachlan firmly in line of succession at Fox and the remainder of the media empire. The 92-year-old Australian billionaire’s creation of Fox Information Channel has made him an everlasting pressure in American politics. He inherited a newspaper in Adelaide, Australia, from his father in 1952 and ultimately constructed a information and leisure enterprise dominant in the USA and Britain. For extra, on Murdoch’s shock exit from his Fox media empire, FRANCE 24’s Delano D’Souza is joined by Simon J Potter, Professor of Trendy Historical past. He has printed extensively on the historical past of the British media, notably on the historical past of the British Broadcasting Company (BBC).
