Rupert Murdoch is retiring from the Fox and News Corporation boards, the corporate is ready to announce Thursday morning, making his son Lachlan the only government in command of the worldwide media empire he constructed from a small native newspaper concern in Australia beginning 70 years in the past.

The elder Mr. Murdoch will develop into chairman emeritus of the 2 corporations, in keeping with an individual with information of the change.

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