Jonathan Mahler

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Staff Writer, New York Times Magazine. Author (The Bronx Is Burning The Challenge, Death Comes to Happy Valley). I'm okay with you calling it football.

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Articles

How the G.O.P. Fell in Love With Putin's Russia

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Jonathan Mahler

What explains the Trump administration's radical reversal toward Moscow? Credit... Photo illustration by Pablo Delcan In 1989, shortly before the fall of communism, Boris Yeltsin - the reformer who would soon become the first freely elected president of post-Soviet Russia - visited a supermarket in Houston, Texas, and was overwhelmed by the dizzying array of meats and vegetables on offer. "What have we done to our poor people?" he later asked an associate traveling with him.
Member Special Edition

2 months ago | mailchi.mp | Elizabeth Johnson |Susan Freinkel |Hank Azaria |Jonathan Mahler

Paying SLR Members get 10 bonus newsletters throughout the year. Here's a peek at what they receive around holidays, though we won't be sending another full preview this year. To make sure you never miss a week's worth of fantastic reading—and to help us continue celebrating worthwhile journalism when it's more valuable than ever before—please consider joining us as a paying supporter.
Las 6 conclusiones sobre la lucha por la sucesiĆ³n de Murdoch

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Jim Rutenberg |Jonathan Mahler

Rupert Murdoch y sus familiares controlan el imperio mediático conservador más influyente del mundo. Pero, durante más de un año, han estado enzarzados en una batalla legal secreta sobre quién lo controla. Rupert y su hijo mayor, Lachlan, intentaron cederle a Lachlan el control total de las empresas. Sin embargo, sus hermanos bloquearon la maniobra. A continuación, ofrecemos seis conclusiones de esos documentos.
Six takeaways about the Murdoch succession fight - Editor and Publisher

2 months ago | editorandpublisher.com | Jim Rutenberg |Jonathan Mahler

Posted Friday, February 14, 2025 10:40 am 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.
6 Takeaways About the Fight for Rupert Murdoch's Empire

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Jim Rutenberg |Jonathan Mahler

The fight over the Murdoch family trust has deepened old fault lines. Lachlan was convinced that his three oldest siblings, led by James, were plotting to overthrow him when their father dies. Elisabeth, who has historically seen herself as the family's Switzerland, said that she felt "violated and forsaken" by her father's plan to change the trust. "You've blown a hole in the family," she told him.
Inside the Murdochs' Succession Drama

2 months ago | nytimes.com | Jonathan Mahler |Jim Rutenberg

In early December 2023, Rupert Murdoch flew into London to see his two oldest daughters, Prudence and Elisabeth. It was not a social visit. For months, Rupert and his firstborn son, Lachlan, had been working on a secret plan to amend the family's trust to strip three of his other children - Prue, Liz and James - of their power to influence the direction of the family business. Their lawyers had named it Project Family Harmony.
‘You’ve Blown a Hole in the Family’: Inside the Murdochs’ Succession Drama

2 months ago | flipboard.com | Jonathan Mahler |Jim Rutenberg

4 hours agoThe New York Times obtained nearly the entire record of the secret trial over the fate of Rupert Murdoch’s family trust, which controls his powerful media empire. The reporters, Jim Rutenberg and Jonathan Mahler, described the trial as like “an entire season of ‘Succession.’”
Rupert Murdoch faces uphill fight to unwind family trust decision

Dec 19, 2024 | theage.com.au | Jim Rutenberg |Jonathan Mahler

By Jim Rutenberg and Jonathan Mahler December 20, 2024 — 3.19pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Rupert Murdoch’s attempt to change his family trust to consolidate his son Lachlan’s leadership of his global media empire — and lock in its conservative editorial direction after his death — now depends on a long-shot move in the highly specialised Nevada probate court system.
Rupert Murdoch's Appeal to Alter Family Trust Faces Uphill Battle

Dec 19, 2024 | nytimes.com | Jim Rutenberg |Jonathan Mahler

"These types of decisions are not that easy to challenge because of this 'clearly erroneous' standard," said Kevin P. Walsh, a Nevada estate planning and litigation lawyer who appears regularly in the Reno probate court. "It would have to be something that really slaps you in the face as being a mistake."That might prove especially difficult, he said, because of the breadth and unequivocal language of the Dec. 7 recommendation that the probate commissioner, Edmund J.
Rupert Murdoch Fails in Bid to Change Family Trust

Dec 17, 2024 | rethinking65.com | Jonathan Mahler |Jim Rutenberg

A Nevada commissioner ruled resoundingly against Rupert Murdoch’s attempt to change his family’s trust to consolidate his eldest son Lachlan’s control of his media empire and lock in Fox News’ right-wing editorial slant, according to a sealed court document obtained by The New York Times. The commissioner, Edmund J. Gorman Jr., concluded in a decision filed Dec.