By BROOKS BARNES and SYDNEY EMBERAPRIL 22, 2017<br />The sun was setting in New York as James Murdoch, looking confident in cream pants<br />and a dark blazer, stepped before 350 guests in a glass-walled concert hall and waxed poetic about his pet TV channel and its dedication to “scientific literacy.”<br />The event on Wednesday night was an advertising showcase for National Geographic, which Mr. Murdoch,<br />44, has doted on since becoming chief executive of its parent company, 21st Century Fox.<br />In the fall, James and Lachlan introduced additional benefits, including more paid vacation, vastly enhanced reproductive coverage for women<br />and “expanded coverage for our transgender colleagues.”<br />The brothers concluded the memo on a jaunty note: “Enjoy!”<br />James and Lachlan overhauled their international networks business, a collection of some 350 channels; changed<br />leadership at their film studio, home to the “X-Men” movies; and poured money into National Geographic.<br />In House of Murdoch, Sons Set About an Elaborate Overhaul -<br />Since taking over two years ago, James and Lachlan Murdoch seem determined to rid<br />the company of the old-guard culture on which their father built his empire.<br />Only last summer, when the former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson filed a sexual harassment<br />suit against Mr. Ailes, did James and Lachlan, and eventually Rupert, force change.
