The Family That Broke News

Get started with Odoo, try a free 15-day trial and level up your quality of work: https://www.odoo.com/r/WBv0 (ad) Who will win the battle for succession in the Murdoch family and take control of the world's most powerful media empire? Our research is based on the following sources, among others: “You’ve Blown a Hole in the Family,” by Jonathan Mahler and Jim Rutenberg for the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/magazine/rupert-murdoch-succession-family-trust-fight.html “Growing Up Murdoch,” by McKay Coppins for The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/04/rupert-murdoch-family-succession-james-murdoch/681675/ “Anna and Her Kingdom,” by David Leser for Australian Women’s Weekly: https://davidleser.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Anna-Murdoch.pdf “The Boy Who Wouldn’t Be King,” by Steve Fishman for New York magazine: https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/media/features/14302/ “How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the World,” by Jonathan Mahler and Jim Rutenberg for the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/03/magazine/rupert-murdoch-fox-news-trump.html The Murdochs: Empire of Influence (CNN/New York Times documentary series): https://edition.cnn.com/shows/the-murdochs-empire-of-influence “Inside the Deal Ending the Murdoch Succession Fight,” by Jim Rutenberg and Jonathan Mahler for the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/business/media/murdoch-family-trust-succession-deal.html Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JloMejlg5GMQCSj8F06Pe7k_BkaapLewa5G2WCQpF-M/edit?usp=sharing ---------- Credits: Executive Producers: Jonas David Paul Script: Don Jonas Jonas R. Fact-Check: Kai Bodensiek Lisa Victoria Peter Art Direction: Thomas Overbeeke Voice Over: Elmer Edit: Alejandro Camacho Diaz 3D Animation: Killian van Basten Lucas Göhr 2D Animation: Tim Verhaert Eddy Klaus Leo Jung Jakob Schöne (ad) Sound Mix: Leo Wang ---------- Music list: Tom Fox: Formal Lines, The Sides of War, Countries Aren't Real, Signal Drop B, Naval Presence, Taskforce, Alien Machine, Brutal War Lens Distortion: Take the Crown - Persona Non Grata, Testing the Limits, No Ordinary Pursuit, Waiting For A While B, No One Wins, Stay Down, Power Play, Vanguard, The Long Game, Panic, Virtuoso, Unshaken Force Multiplayer - Full Contact For all time - Beyond the Fold, Magnum Opus In the Silence - In the Silence Artlist: Ardie Son - Circus Piotr Hummel - Dark Silence Artlist Musical Logos - Sad Music Ident Nono - Tears - The 5th Season Will Van De Crommert - A Ray of Elegance Ian Post - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy Tchaikovsky - Alternative version John Dada the Weathermen - Chamber Stress Gal Lev - Empty Rooms Young Rich Pixies - Monster from the Deep Gal Lev - TOMORROW Gruber - The Uprising Roberto Prado - Court Scheme Lars Bork Andersen - Dramatic Motion Epidemic Sound: Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen - Rivers Run Red String Quartet No 5 In F Major K 158 Allegro Ritchie Everett - Bachelor on the Move The New Fools - It'll Be a Slow Burn August Wilhelmsson - Drummer's Game 1 Peachwood - Domino Dream Cave - Nerve, Death and Glory Robert Ruth - Frame by Frame Dian Shuai - The Only Way Out Jon Bjork - Slipping Through My Fingers Craft Case - Vessels Bonnie Grace - One Hour Countdown Audiio: Tom Goldstein - Vortex Andrew and Jared Depolo - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy _____ Armchair documentaries, almost weekly