Murdoch watchers have had their gaze wrenched towards the home of the controlling family trust in Reno, Nevada this past week. But Australians would get a better sense of just how the family’s media companies are accommodating a rising authoritarianism by looking closer to home.
In Hong Kong, The Wall Street Journal, a publication that has marketed itself as the least Murdoch-like of the family’s properties, marked the 28th anniversary of the handover to China this month by sacking reporter Selina Cheng. She had been elected chair of the territory’s leading journalists’ rights organisation, the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA).
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