That Elisabeth Murdoch is the daughter of Rupert, received $100 million in News Corp. stock from a family trust, counts Sony as a an investor, can call up her daddy in the middle of the night and ask him to buy a TV show franchise, is married to PR maestro Matthew Freud, and went to Vassar … makes her a media darling. She is also, by some estimation, and entrepreneur, an industry manifest where relationships matter, like the one with Ben Silverman she leveraged into a $125 million buyout of his Reveille production company.

All of this you knew.

About the only surprising thing you'll find out reading her Times profile – that is if you haven't already met her – is that she does not speak with an Australian accent; she speaks American-ese.