Rupert Murdoch's announcement that he will hand over control of his global media empire to son Lachlan has put the group's British media, including the tabloid The Sun, on tenterhooks about its future place in the conglomerate.
The handover will see Murdoch becoming honorary president of the two companies in mid-November.
Born in 1931 in Australia, Rupert Murdoch studied at Oxford University before returning in the late 1960s to buy the weekly News of theHis second wife Anna Torv was also a Scottish-born journalist. Rupert Murdoch will hand over to son Lachlan Murdoch. Photo: Drew Angerer / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/Getty Images via AFPLachlan Murdoch, 52, although born in the UK, was raised in the United States and started his career in Australia.
Until now he has been president of Fox Corporation, parent company of Fox News, and was mainly in charge of the group's US affairs.of power to a successor who appears to have little personal attachment to the UK has inevitably prompted some concern. "The inevitable appointment of Lachlan is bad news for the London arm ," former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie said in a column for the Spectator on Thursday.
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