Rupert Murdoch on Tuesday raised the possibility of his eldest son Lachlan returning to a senior position in News Corp, a year after the media mogul’s one-time heir apparent left in frustration.
“Lachlan might come back,” Mr Murdoch told the Financial Times, saying he spoke to his son “two or three times a week” and they remained “very close”, in spite of previous tensions about Lachlan’s role in the company.
“There were absolutely no tensions in this building – none – except between him and me,” Mr Murdoch said of Lachlan, 35, the former deputy chief operating officer who remains on the board. “I begged him to stay.”
Mr Murdoch also dismissed as “absolute crap” reports of recent dissension among News Corp’s remaining executives. He was responding to Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal, which alleged that Roger Ailes, chairman of Fox Television, and the executive who took over much of Lachlan’s portfolio, had rankled colleagues.
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