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British businessman (born 1971)
Fox News is a division of Fox Corporation, a publicly traded U.S. media company whose , while ordinary equity is widely held by institutional and retail investors. Operational leadership is concentrat...
Major U.S. cable news outlets are parts of much larger corporate families: CNN is operated inside Warner Bros. Discovery, whose board and institutional shareholders control the parent company , while ...
The Murdoch family is widely identified with conservative political causes and actors, and Rupert Murdoch’s media holdings — including Fox News and The Wall Street Journal — have a long record of supp...
Tucker Carlson’s abrupt exit from Fox News in April 2023 followed Fox’s $787.5 million settlement with Dominion and came amid multiple internal controversies about his conduct and comments; Fox said i...
Fox Corporation was created in March 2019 as the remainder of 21st Century Fox after Disney bought most entertainment assets; control of the new Fox remains concentrated in the Murdoch family via a fa...
Fox News is a wholly owned operating unit of Fox Corporation, a publicly traded company with a dual-class share structure that concentrates voting control in Murdoch-linked Class B shares (public Clas...
Fox Corporation bought Red Seat Ventures in February 2025, a creator-economy podcast and media business that Fox says drove “over 200 million monthly active views” across 17 creator-led shows as of No...
Fox News is owned by Fox Corporation, the public company formed after Disney bought much of 21st Century Fox in 2019; the Murdoch family retains decisive control through voting shares and a family tru...
Fox News is a Murdoch-controlled cable news network that remains the dominant player in U.S. cable ratings while facing major legal and reputational challenges that have reshaped its risk profile. , e...
Fox Corporation is controlled through a that concentrates voting power with the Murdoch family via Class B shares while ordinary public investors hold Class A shares with lesser votes; Lachlan Murdoch...
Fox News was launched in 1996 as part of Rupert Murdoch’s television holdings and remained under Murdoch family control through successive corporate restructurings: from News Corporation to 21st Centu...
Litigation and internal documents produced in the Dominion and Smartmatic lawsuits expose a trove of internal texts, emails, employee surveys and deposition material that illuminate Fox News’s editori...
The Murdoch family's political orientation—long associated with conservative editorial lines at flagship outlets such as Fox News, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post—has concrete implicatio...
Public filings and market-data sites show institutional investors—Vanguard, State Street, BlackRock and others—are the largest listed shareholders of Fox Corporation’s publicly traded classes, while r...
Available reporting in mid–2025 consistently describes the Murdoch family trust as controlling roughly 39–40% of Fox Corporation’s voting stock, and that control was preserved through trust structures...
Fox News announced on April 24, 2023 that “Fox News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways,” and the network said Carlson’s last show had been April 21 . Reporting at the time described the...