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Lachlan Murdoch targets Private Media chair, CEO in defamation claim

Sam Buckingham-Jones
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Lachlan Murdoch has taken aim at former The Sydney Morning Herald editor and Private Media chairman Eric Beecher and chief executive Will Hayward in his defamation lawsuit against news website Crikey.

In an updated statement of claim against the publisher, filed in the Federal Court late last week, Mr Murdoch, the CEO and executive chairman of Fox Corporation, has added the two men, who are identified as “guiding minds” behind Private Media.

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Sam Buckingham-Jones is the media and marketing reporter at The Australian Financial Review. Connect with Sam on Twitter.

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