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Has Rupert Murdoch actually given up on his legacy deal?
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Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is cutting 5% of its jobs around the world, with over a thousand employees in the newspaper business about to be let go.
But it’s not the only upheaval within the Murdoch media empire. Plans to merge Fox Corporation with the newspaper side of the business have recently been shelved.
So what does that mean for Rupert’s successor, eldest son Lachlan?
Today, contributor to The Saturday Paper and author of the biography of Lachlan Murdoch The Successor – Paddy Manning, on the merger that could define Rupert Murdoch’s legacy and whether he’s really abandoned it for good.
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Guest: Contributor to The Saturday Paper and author of the biography of Lachlan Murdoch The Successor, Paddy Manning
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