Roger Ailes has resigned as the chairman and CEO of Fox News, its parent company 21st Century Fox announced this afternoon. His departure comes after a protracted separation process sparked by a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson.
Wendi Deng was married to Rupert Murdoch for 14 years before they divorced in 2013 amidst rumors that Deng had been cheating on the founder of News Corp. with Tony Blair, the ex-prime minister of the United Kingdom. (Both parties deny this.) With one, maybe two of the world’s most prominent morally questionable, gross…
Louise Mensch, an English author of popular fiction and unpopular political columns, as well as, for a few years, a Conservative member of Parliament, will start a new website, called “Heat Street,” for News Corp, Buzzfeed reports.
Jerry Hall, a former famous girlfriend and star of a hilarious reality show, is officially engaged to a slime-covered amphibian 25 years her senior.
Earlier this year, England’s attorney general accused the magazine publisher Condé Nast of interfering with the 2013 News of the World phone-hacking trial by permitting British GQ to publish a courtroom report—excerpted here—by the American media columnist Michael Wolff. The charges were brazenly contemptuous of press…
Real-life comic book villain Rupert Murdoch emerged from the algae-encrusted slime cave he dwells in on Monday to give his sage musings on the news of the day.
Notorious playground bully Rupert Murdoch is reportedly dating Jerry Hall, the ex-girlfriend of Mick Jagger.
When you’re busy running world’s second-largest media conglomerate, rummaging through the private lives of celebrities, and accusing an entire religion of violence, it’s hard to remember exactly who is the sitting president of the United States, or, for that matter, what he looks like. Rupert Murdoch, for one, won’t…
In 2011, Rebekah Brooks resigned as CEO of the United Kingdom division of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, amid the fallout from the company’s phone-hacking scandal. Today, London’s Financial Times reports that Brooks will return to that position.http://gawker.com/britain-s-phon…
Two years ago, Gawker published a post titled “Did Rebekah Brooks Fuck Rupert Murdoch and His Son Lachlan?” Due to England’s notorious practice of censoring stories that pertain to pending litigation, however, Gawker Media has been blocking IP addresses in the United Kingdom from accessing the story. After we were…
In April 2014, the media critic Michael Wolff published a column in British GQ about the then-ongoing phone hacking trial against several journalists and editors employed by Rupert Murdoch’s shuttered tabloid News of the World. Titled “The court without the king,” the critical article is now at the center of a…
CNBC is reporting that 21st Century Fox C.E.O. Rupert Murdoch is planning to transfer his title to his 42-year-old son James:
Former News Corp executive and News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks, who, last year, was found not guilty of hacking a murdered 13-year-old's cell phone, is about to be rehired by her old employer (and possibly lover) Rupert Murdoch, The Guardian reports.
Last night, Australian media baron Rupert Murdoch tweeted the following:
When last we left Rupert Murdoch, he was tweeting wrong, bigoted things about Egyptians. Now, he is tweeting wrong, bigoted things about Muslims! ("Moslems," actually.) The world is just so full of things to be wrong about. Thankfully though, J.K. Rowling has stepped in to restore balance.
What is whiteness? It's a question that both ethnic studies scholars and stoned ethnic studies freshman have pondered for decades. But for News Corp magnate Rupert Murdoch, the answer is simple: whiteness is what Rupert Murdoch says it is.
Huge media conglomerate Time Warner rejected an $80 billion takeover offer from News Corp today, but the company may still be "in play," so it's not too late for an even more enormous portion of the U.S. media to fall under the control of Rupert Murdoch, a rich old climate change denier.
