Jim Rutenberg

Mediaite editor Aidan McLaughlin speaks with New York Times writer-at-large Jim Rutenberg about the vast media empire of Rupert Murdoch. Rutenberg is the co-author of an extensive Times investigation into the Murdoch family that was published in 2019. That report was turned into a documentary — "The Murdochs: Empire of Influence" — for which Rutenberg served as consulting producer and is now airing Sundays at 9 p.m. on CNN. McLaughlin and Rutenberg discuss the future of the Murdoch empire, how the family handles the profit and controversy machine that is Fox News, and how the documentary came to life.