the other media baron who inspired Succession was more toxic and dysfunctional than Logan Roy
- Written by Nick Richardson, Adjunct Professor of Journalism, La Trobe University

Just before the third season of the hit HBO television show Succession began, the show’s creator, Jesse Armstrong, was asked (again) what it was about real-life media tycoons Sumner Redstone and Rupert Murdoch that drove him to create a TV series about a fictional media family that bore some resemblances to each of them.
Armstrong’s...