Rupert Murdoch: Piers Morgan leads tributes to ‘visionary leader’ as mogul prepares to step down from media empire

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upert Murdoch has been praised for being a “daring, sensible, visionary chief whose audacity and tenacity constructed a magnificently profitable international media empire”.

On Thursday, it was introduced that the 92-year-old Australian-born newspaper proprietor would retire as chairman of his Fox and Information Corp companies.

Piers Morgan was amongst these paying tribute.

The 58-year-old has labored for a succession of Mr Murdoch’s retailers, and aged 29 he was appointed because the editor of the now defunct newspaper the Information of the World by the media mogul.

Writing on X, previously generally known as Twitter, Morgan mentioned: “Rupert Murdoch has been a daring, sensible, visionary chief whose audacity & tenacity constructed a magnificently profitable international media empire.

“It’s been a privilege to work for him on and off for the previous 30 years, and an ongoing masterclass in journalism & enterprise. Thanks Boss!”

Morgan was the editor of the previous tabloid newspaper till he jumped ship to the Day by day Mirror, which he edited from 1995 to 2004, earlier than signing a cope with Mr Murdoch’s Information Corp and Fox Information Media in 2021.

The settlement led to him doing columns for the New York Put up and The Solar together with presenting Piers Morgan Uncensored, which airs on Information UK’s newly launched channel TalkTV.

Additionally paying tribute to Mr Murdoch’s enterprise expertise was the ex-editor of The Solar Kelvin MacKenzie, who known as his former boss the “biggest media entrepreneur of this, or some other age”.

Writing on X, Mr MacKenzie additionally mentioned: “It is going to result in change.”

Mr Murdoch, who can be appointed chairman emeritus of every firm, goes to get replaced within the function at Fox and Information Corp by his son Lachlan Murdoch.