In January, 1993, I flew to Los Angeles to interview Rupert Murdoch in the midst of a slump in the stock of his company, News Corporation. It was one of the few Hollywood stories I ever told. News had sold New York Magazine, where I’d worked for five years, to a private equity partnership controlled by financier Henry Kravis two years earlier. The resulting story (pictured) appeared the following month. You can read it by scrolling down at the linked page. Today, thirty-and-one-half years later, Murdoch announced he will hand the reins of a shrunken News Corp. to his son Lachlan Murdoch. Think what you will of him, Rupert was larger than life. Though at the end of the interview and the story, he acknowledged there was a higher authority in Hollywood than him. And the end of this chapter in media history is as exhilarating and frightening as it was sitting down to interview him.