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Tag: Media

All longform pieces tagged with #media on The Slow Scroll

‘You’ve Blown a Hole in the Family’: Inside the Murdochs’ Succession Drama
New York Times14 Feb 2025 • ~13700 words

In this exploration of the Murdoch family's internal power struggles, Jonathan Mahler and Jim Rutenberg dive into the events surrounding Rupert Murdoch's attempts to secure his legacy. With over 3,000 pages of court documents available as a source, the authors illustrate a tale o...

Growing up Murdoch
The Atlantic14 Feb 2025 • ~13750 words

Mckay Coppins reports on James Murdoch, presenting a detailed examination of his life and his complex relationship with his father, Rupert Murdoch, and the family's media empire. The intense sibling rivalry between James and Lachlan and Rupert's favoring of Lachlan as his success...

This Therapist Is Not Who She Seems to Be
Allure22 Jan 2025 • ~4500 words

Meet Sophie Cress, a licensed marriage and family therapist with over 8 years of experience, with a master’s degree and additional certifications. Except, there is a very good chance that she, and some of her colleagues like Aliyah Moore and Dainis Graveris, don’t exist at all, e...

A Good Company
Harper's Magazine22 Jan 2025 • ~6750 words

Justin Nobel is writing a book on the environmental threats of oil and gas, which will be published by Simon & Schuster. There is only one problem: S&S was sold to to KKR, a private equity firm with significant investments in oil and gas.