Rupert Murdoch will be the subject of a multipart documentary series produced by CNN and the New York Times, according to a report by Bloomberg News. The project, which has yet to be officially announced, and is eyeing a 2022 release, will expand on reporting by Jonathan Mahler and Jim Rutenberg and their award-winning 2019 story Planet Fox.
While the 90-year-old Murdoch and his family have been the subject of many documentaries, and is not not the inspiration for Succession, this new, unnamed series is the first to come from a team-up between the two competing news organizations with which he has most frequently locked horns. On cable news, one could easily position the top two choices as CNN vs. Fox, and for broadsheet newspapers of record there’s the Times vs. the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal. (How Murdoch’s pun-happy tabloid New York Post fits into the current landscape remains to be seen.)
Bloomberg reports that the production company Left/Right, whose recent Framing Britney Spears documentary was a tremendous success, will work on the project.
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