Tag: biography
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LALA’S BOOKNOTES: Bonfire of the Murdochs: How the epic fight to control the last great media dynasty broke a family—and the world, by Gabriel Sherman
‘Bonfire of the Murdochs’ by Gabriel Sherman traces Rupert Murdoch’s ruthless creation of a $17 billion global media empire. It exposes a toxic “Darwinian” succession war pitting his children—Lachlan, James, Liz, and Prue—against each other. Ultimately, the patriarch destroyed his own family to secure his right-wing corporate legacy.
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RUPERT MURDOCH: The man who wanted everything
Rupert Murdoch built a $17 billion global media colossus, only to destroy everything he loved in the process. Driven by childhood trauma, he approached business and family as a ruthless “Darwinian struggle”. Resembling a tragic King Midas, he engineered a devastating succession war that permanently fractured his family to protect his right-wing legacy.
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LALA’s BOOK NOTES: Escaño – A Family Portrait
Chronicled in the book, the Escaño family built a historic Philippine shipping and power monopoly. Today, they remain highly relevant through strategic dynastic alliances and diversified modern enterprises. They co-manage the Visayan Electric Company alongside the Aboitiz family, while their Lhuillier branch operates the massive Cebuana Lhuillier network.
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Out-of-the-box style for a documentary film
We had the sun and surf on one side, and the verdant mountain on the other
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OMG, I’m a ‘film producer!
I have crossed over — or dipped my foot — to a whole new way of storytelling that’s far from my text-based or article-heavy journalism usual.
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How a documentary captured the humanity of John Gokongwei Jr.
My decades of business journalism have taught me how straightforward, risk-averse, fact-based business people are when they are in front of a camera. How did we make Gokongwei Jr’s humanity shine in a documentary?
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