Elisabeth Murdoch

Elisabeth Murdoch funds film school that says no to nepotism

Company will launch London project to encourage more diverse intake of young people with no industry connections

Vanessa Thorpe Arts & media correspondent

28, Feb, 2021 @9:15 AM

How departure of James laid bare the Murdoch family rifts

The younger son has quit the family firm, but the question of who eventually inherits Rupert’s media empire remains a cliffhanger

Vanessa Thorpe

02, Aug, 2020 @8:00 AM

Women of means: UK now home to 25 female billionaires

Tetra Pak scion Kirsten Rausing tops 2020 Sunday Times Rich List with £12.1bn fortune

Rob Davies

16, May, 2020 @7:01 AM

Elisabeth Murdoch dismisses BBC director general rumours

Sources say Rupert’s daughter not interested in job, after press reports made her the favourite

Jim Waterson Media editor

11, Feb, 2020 @3:42 PM

Alex Mahon: 'she will fight Channel 4's corner and fight it well'

Channel 4’s new chief executive will need all her intelligence, charm and contacts to meet the challenges facing the broadcaster

Jane Martinson

09, Jun, 2017 @4:15 PM

Elisabeth Murdoch in talks to invest in Broadchurch producer's new firm

Jane Featherstone, a former co-chairman of Shine UK, is launching Sister Pictures

Mark Sweney

19, Jan, 2016 @11:17 AM

40 years of MacTaggart: one speech with a track record of changing TV

Armando Iannucci’s lecture to the Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival marks 40 years of industry agenda-setting

Maggie Brown

23, Aug, 2015 @5:04 PM

Elisabeth Murdoch won’t be running back to Rupert

Peter Preston: Rupert Murdoch’s daughter has long made her own talented way in television. She’s unlikely to stay under his thumb now she has left Shine

Peter Preston

11, Oct, 2014 @11:05 PM

Matthew Freud and Elisabeth Murdoch to divorce

Media power couple, estimated to be worth £250m, to split after years of alleged tension between PR guru and Rupert Murdoch. By Mark Sweney

Mark Sweney

06, Oct, 2014 @10:57 AM

Elisabeth Murdoch set to quit television production company Shine Group

21st Century Fox now merging Shine with Big Brother-maker Endemol and Core Media, which produces American Idol

Chris Johnston

01, Oct, 2014 @5:02 PM

30 most powerful women in British TV and radio named by Radio Times

Presenters and executives, including Mary Berry and Kirsty Wark, among on- and off-screen talent on list drawn up by panel

Jason Deans

01, Sep, 2014 @11:05 PM

Former News Corp chief denies calling the Australian 'pathetic' in interview

Ken Cowley, head of News Corp Australia for 27 years, says he was misquoted in Fairfax article that also claimed he was critical of Rupert Murdoch’s succession plan

Amanda Meade

02, Jun, 2014 @2:44 AM