Inside the Murdoch family’s succession drama

Mar 6, 2025 35 min

About this episode

Last year, media mogul Rupert Murdoch tried to wrest control of his family trust — and the future of his massive news conglomerate — away from three of his children in favor of his eldest son, Lachlan. The bitter court battle that followed strained the family to the breaking point and prompted his youngest son, James, to share his story, for the first time, with <a href="https://apple.news/AAmiUA1GCSeGGZJNOcO4ZiA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Atlantic</a> staff writer McKay Coppins. Coppins’s <a href="https://apple.news/AAmiUA1GCSeGGZJNOcO4ZiA" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">article</a> was selected as Apple News’s February Story of the Month, and he spoke with Apple News In Conversation host Shumita Basu about James’s challenging relationship with his father and the war for the Murdoch media empire.

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