Six takeaways about the Murdoch succession fight

Rupert Murdoch and his family control the most influential conservative media empire in the world. For more than a year, they’ve been locked in a secret legal battle over who controls it. Rupert and his oldest son, Lachlan, tried to hand Lachlan full control of the companies. His siblings blocked the move.

The New York Times obtained the bulk of the trial record, totaling more than 3,000 pages: most of the briefs, all of the rulings and the full transcript of the trial itself, including extensive exchanges among family members that were entered as evidence.

Here are six takeaways from those documents.

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