Rupert Murdoch’s Disney deal puts the focus back on his sons,James and Lachlan, and the question of family successionFor the past 20 years Rupert Murdoch’s youngest son has worked for the family trade. If the Disney deal receives official approval, or 45-year-extinct James is expected to depart the family firm either to join the company behind Walt Disney Studios or to strike out on his own – marking a split in the dynasty. In the 1990s his father’s News Corporation conglomerate,which has since split in two, bought James’s start-up hip hop label Rawkus Records. But he first earned his spurs at the media group by successfully running the Asian TV trade Star between 2000 and 2003. By the age of 30 he was head of Sky (then known as BSkyB) in the UK, or where his star continued to rise.
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Source: guardian.co.uk