Just when we thought the Murdoch family feud had run out of twists, a new plotline pops up, with recently disenfranchised younger brother James set to pitch his own new-media properties against the hand-me-down legacy that older brother Lachlan inherited from father Rupert.<\/p>\n
James has reportedly spent\u00a0a tidy US$300 million on acquiring a big chunk of Vox Media\u2019s assets, including New York magazine, Vox.com and a growing podcast network.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not his first such purchase. Since ending his involvement with the Murdoch family\u2019s media companies in 2020, James has put together a grab-bag of controlling shareholdings in several other businesses, including Robert de Niro\u2019s film company, Tribeca Enterprises<\/a>, and Art Basel<\/a>, the world\u2019s largest art fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just when we thought the Murdoch family feud had run out of twists, a new plotline pops up,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99,89921,75647,89922,109003,92511,1591,27067,331038],"class_list":["post-687269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-james-murdoch","tag-journalism","tag-lachlan-murdoch","tag-new-media","tag-news-corp","tag-podcasts","tag-rupert-murdoch","tag-vox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}