Real-life succession: Rupert’s daughter-in-law Kathryn gets political
Having sold out of the company, if not the family, Kathryn and James Murdoch are using the proceeds to try to reinvigorate America’s struggling democracy.
It’s less than five minutes into our first meeting and Kathryn Murdoch is already deep into the technicalities of US electoral reform. After rattling through the finer points of ranked-choice voting and the relative merits of open primaries, she pauses and admits that she is drawn to problems that are “a little bit wonkier and less sexy” than other philanthropists.
Kathryn Murdoch, married to Rupert’s second son James for 21 years, has been focused on the pursuit of a goal that many dismiss as hopeless: reforming and moderating US politics. Bloomberg
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