I'm Mary Louise Kelly. World News is changing by the hour. On sources and methods, NPR's

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app or wherever you get your podcasts. This is fresh air. I'm Terry Gross. In 2023, Rupert Murdoch

officially named his most conservative child, Lachlan, as a successor to the Murdoch Media Empire.

It includes Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post,

and more. The lawsuit to amend the Murdoch Family Trust ended last year. The other three

oldest Murdoch children received $1.1 billion each in a buyout. It's a Shakespearean drama

that journalist Gabriel Sherman details in his new

book, Bonfire of the Murdox. He spoke with guest interviewer Sam Fragoso. Here's Sam.

Rupert Murdoch was just 21 years old, a student in Oxford when he inherited his first newspaper.

It was in 1952 after the death of his father, Sir Keith Murdoch,

and the paper was the news of Adelaide, published out of southern Australia,

with the circulation of about 75,000.

Rupert was undaunted, though,

and used the modest publication as a springboard

to build a vast conservative

media empire that currently includes Fox News, the New York Post, and the Wall Street Journal.

But despite the size and scope of his continued efforts, Murdoch has long seen News Corp as a family

business, one to be left behind to his children, as his father did

for him. In recent years, however, there's been a riff over how the family sees the future of the

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