Walter Marsh
Freelance Writer at Freelance
Writing about history and culture, ‘Young Rupert: the making of the Murdoch empire’ out now in Aus/UK/US via @scribepub
Articles
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Jan 11, 2025 |
theguardian.com | Walter Marsh
Bernie O’Rourke can vividly recall flying out from Newcastle in September 2019 on one of the first catastrophic fire days of a season now known as black summer. It was 1.30 in the morning and, as the navy helicopter zigzagged over the bushland between Armidale and Taree, O’Rourke could see up to five fires blazing bright in the darkness. While night fires usually resemble “dots of colour” across a black landscape, this time O’Rourke saw something “very weird”. “The glow,” he says.
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Nov 26, 2023 |
australianbookreview.com.au | Walter Marsh
In Michael Wolff’s telling, the final stretch of Rupert Murdoch’s seventy-year media career plays out like a ghost story. When, in 2016, Rupert’s sons, Lachlan and James, vanquished Roger Ailes – disgraced architect of Fox News – in a rare moment of fraternal unity, the money-printing reactionary machine Ailes had built for their father kept on mutating and metastasising, in ways that would haunt the company and the Murdoch family.
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Oct 7, 2023 |
theguardian.com | Walter Marsh
When journalist Dan Box began looking into a murder case, his goal was to win a Walkley. But a friendship and a tragedy put him at the centre of the story
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Sep 24, 2023 |
msn.com | Walter Marsh
On 9 September 1953, a small page-two item in the Adelaide News announced: “Mr Rupert Murdoch, son of the late Sir Keith Murdoch, is to join the staff of News Ltd.” Seventy years later almost to the day, the news of his resignation as chairman of the global media empire that company became arrived to noticeably more fanfare.
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Sep 6, 2023 |
afr.com | Walter Marsh
CompaniesMedia & MarketingA biography of the 92-year-old media tycoon explores his political views as a spoilt and sometimes crass Oxford University student. Walter MarshSep 7, 2023 – 6.52am or Subscribe to save articleBy October 1950, Rupert Murdoch had finally escaped Corio Bay and Geelong Grammar, and while he had matriculated with only middling results, he was about to live out another unfulfilled dream of his father’s: higher education.
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