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Lachlan
Murdoch
Lachlan Keith Murdoch (born September 8, 1971),
is the elder son of media mogul, Rupert Murdoch
and the former Anna Torv. He resigned from his
executive positions at News Corporation on 29
July 2005. However, Lachlan is still on the Board
of Directors at NewsCorp and is a company consultant.
Subsequently, younger brother James Murdoch is
now viewed as his father's heir-apparent by the
press. Their sister Elisabeth Murdoch, an able
businesswoman in her own right, is married to
publicity wizard Matthew Freud. Lachlan is married
to Sarah Murdoch.
Biography
Lachlan
Murdoch was born in London, England, but was raised
in a wealthy Manhattan neighbourhood, where his
father owned the tabloid, the New York Post. He
received his education at the exclusive Aspen
Country Day School in Aspen, Colorado, as well
as Phillips Academy, in Andover, Massachusetts,
and earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy
from Princeton University in 1994. During summers
he would work jobs ranging from cleaning printing
presses to sub-editor at The Sun and The Times.
At the age of 22, he was appointed general manager
of Queensland Newspapers, which publishes The
Courier-Mail in Brisbane. One year later, he became
publisher of Australia’s first national
paper, The Australian. In 1995, he was appointed
Deputy CEO of News Limited, Executive Director
of News Corporation since 1996, Deputy Chief Operating
Officer since 2000, Senior Executive Vice President
from 1999 to 2000, and Chairman of STAR since
1995.
He
has been criticised as a "rich brat"
for his "poor handling" of Murdoch interests
in One.Tel[citation needed], which lost the empire
millions of dollars. In this venture, Lachlan
worked with Australian businessman James Packer,
the son of Kerry Packer. Lachlan has also been
attacked for trying to "Americanise"
Australian newspapers. Lachlan has publicly supported
the idea of Australia becoming a republic (for
example in National ABC Radio AM 8.21am interview
on 22nd September, 1999).
Murdoch
married Australian model/actress, Sarah O'Hare
in 1999. They have two sons, Kalan Alexander,
born in 2004, and Aidan Patrick, born on May 6,
2006. Prior to 2003, Lachlan and Sarah were owners
of "Berthong", a house in Elizabeth
Bay, Sydney, which was subsequently bought by
Russell Crowe. From time to time, Lachlan and
Sarah host fundraising dinners for the charity
"Murdoch Children's Research Institute".
Lachlan is considered to be a friend of Australian
actress Nicole Kidman, New Zealand actor Russell
Crowe and director Baz Luhrmann.
Lachlan
has a strong personal interest in Australian rugby
league. On March 30, 1995, Lachlan Murdoch was
at the first Super League meeting in the Atanaskovic
Hartnell offices in Sydney. He and former Broncos
chief John Ribot signed up leading Bulldogs players
on documents which were not legally effective.
For
the year 2001, Murdoch earned a salary of au$2.59
million . In June 2005, Murdoch received the Press
& Outdoor Advertising "Media Person of
The Year" award in Cannes . Lachlan is one
of the founding patrons (along with Anthony Pratt,
Peter Lowy and Lisa Fox of an organization called
"Advance", formerly known as "YAPA"
(Young Australian Professionals in America).
On
July 29, 2005, he announced that he would be resigning
from executive roles with News Corporation and
moving with his family to Australia, although
he would retain his seat on the board.
After
his resignation, Roger Ailes, the chairman of
Fox News Channel, was named chairman of News Corp.'s
group of television stations. The abrupt and unexplained
departure of the 33-year-old Lachlan Murdoch apparently
dashed News Corp. Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch's
hopes that his son would one day take over as
CEO of the global media empire, which includes
the Twentieth Century Fox movie studio, the Fox
television network, several satellite broadcasters
including DirecTV, and newspapers in Britain,
Australia, and the New York Post.
In
the weeks after his resignation, however, he began
a new venture, lodging applications to set up
a new Australian company called Illyria Pty Ltd,
in which he acts as sole director and secretary.
In
February 2006, Murdoch attended the memorial service
for Australian businessman Kerry Packer.
As
of February 2007, Murdoch is taking part in a
joint venture with swimmer Ian Thorpe in the hopes
of aiding the HIV epidemic in Papua New Guinea.
Lachlan
is interested in adventure sports and he is a
very good sailor (having competed in Sydney to
Hobart race), skindiver and spearfisher.
This
article contains content from the defunct wiki,
HierarchyPedia, used here under the GNU Free Documentation
License
Quotes
By Lachlan
* "Good journalism is good business practice;
good business supports great journalism."
(Andrew Olle Media Lecture, 18 October 2002)
* "You can see here that the Australian media
elite define their club through standards designed
only to exclude." (Andrew Olle Media Lecture,
18 October 2002)
* "One of the problems with American newspapers
is that the design, the look, and the feel lack
any sort of vigor, that's a pity"
About
Lachlan
* "He (Lachlan) was a gentleman, and he called
to be sure that the contretemps last week was
between him and the New York Daily News, not between
him and me."
(Ken
Auletta, writer for The New Yorker, after a story
that the New York Post was losing $40 million
a year), (Credit:
Wikipedia).
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