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Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., the owner of HarperCollins, Bertelsmann's Penguin Random House and French conglom Vivendi have emerged as top contenders for Simon & Schuster with bids for the storied ViacomCBS publisher due in before Thanksgiving, according to a person familiar with the situation. ViacomCBS put the…

Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch’s compensation totaled $29.15 million for the fiscal year ended in June, down sharply from $42.11 million the year before. His dad, chairman Rupert Murdoch, took home $33.98 million, also below the $42.16 million for Fox’s fiscal 2019, according to a proxy statement filed Wednesday with the…

News Corp. said Friday that James Murdoch, the son of founder Rupert Murdoch, is resigning from its board of directors due to unspecified differences over editorial content. It’s the latest in periodic bouts of  drama in the media dynasty. Youngest and liberal-leaning son James has had issues with editorial content…

(UPDATED with Fox News & Ed Henry attorney statements on lawsuit) Tucker Carlson is returning to Fox News Channel tonight after a short vacation, but along with the cabler newser itself, Sean Hannity and the now fired Ed Henry, the top rated host also finds himself in the center of a whole new legal spotlight of…

“We should also point out to the ghouls that are beating their chest in triumph at the destruction of a young man that self-righteousness also has its costs,” said Fox News Channel's Tucker Carlson tonight on his top-rated primetime show after one of his top writers was exposed for frequently posting racist, sexist…

UPDATED with Disney/ABC & Fox News statements: Tucker Carlson has one of the most-watched shows on cable news, but the Fox News Channel host is losing advertisers – again. Whereas in 2018, when 20 companies yanked their ads after Carlson obtusely proclaimed that undocumented immigrants made America “poorer, and…

Rupert Murdoch, executive chairman of News Corp. will forgo a cash bonus for 2020. The bonus amount is a target that is set at $2 million a year but is contingent on the company’s achieving various performance metrics so it can vary. He received a $2.2 million bonus for the fiscal year ended in June, 2019. CEO Robert T…

UPDATED with video: Talking backstage at the Golden Globes following his win for Best Actor in a TV drama, Succession star Brian Cox was asked whether his character Logan Roy is really just a portrayal of News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch. “I’m playing Logan Roy!,” exclaimed Cox who plays a self-made media conglomerate…

James Murdoch really doesn't watch Succession and also doesn't watch Fox News Channel. Proving he is far from Roman Roy on HBO’s Emmy-nominated media dynasty series, Rupert Murdoch's youngest son on Wednesday circumspectly handled a slew of questions about his family and the new ground he's staking out for himself…

Donald Trump may be rubbing salt into the wound of Shepard Smith suddenly exiting Fox News Channel today, but the anchor could be back soon-ish to shine a spotlight of truth on the ex-Celebrity Apprentice host. “The decision to leave was Shep’s and his alone," said Smith's PR representative in a statement after the…

UPDATED with more details: Shepard Smith is stepping down from Fox News Channel, effective with Friday afternoon’s edition of Shepard Smith Reporting. The anchor has been a frequent target of President Donald Trump’s attacks, after Smith had been critical of the president at certain points in his administration. Smith…

Three days after Meghan Markle sued The Mail on Sunday and its parent company Associated Newspapers in the UK for publishing one of her private letters, it has be revealed that her husband Prince Harry is taking on Rupert Murdoch's The Sun and the owners of fellow tabloid The Daily Mirror. The September 27 filed…