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Mar 11, 1931 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 93 years old
Australian-born American media mogul
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About Rupert Murdoch
- Keith Rupert Murdoch, (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian-born American media mogul who founded News Corp.Murdoch's father, Sir Keith Murdoch, was a reporter and editor who became a senior executive of The Herald and Weekly Times publishing company, covering all Australian states except New South Wales.
- After his father's death in 1952, Murdoch declined to join his late father's registered media public company and created his own private company, News Limited. In the 1950s and 1960s, Murdoch acquired a number of newspapers in Australia and New Zealand before expanding into the United Kingdom in 1969, taking over the News of the World, followed closely by The Sun.
- In 1974, Murdoch moved to New York City, to expand into the U.S.
- market; however, he retained interests in Australia and Britain.
- In 1981, Murdoch bought The Times, his first British broadsheet and, in 1985, became a naturalized U.S.
- citizen, giving up his Australian citizenship, to satisfy the legal requirement for U.S.
- television network ownership.In 1986, keen to adopt newer electronic publishing technologies, Murdoch consolidated his UK printing operations in Wapping, causing bitter industrial disputes.
- His holding company News Corporation acquired Twentieth Century Fox (1985), HarperCollins (1989), and The Wall Street Journal (2007).
- Murdoch formed the British broadcaster BSkyB in 1990 and, during the 1990s, expanded into Asian networks and South American television.
- By 2000, Murdoch's News Corporation owned over 800 companies in more than 50 countries, with a net worth of over $5 billion. In July 2011, Murdoch faced allegations that his companies, including the News of the World, owned by News Corporation, had been regularly hacking the phones of celebrities, royalty, and public citizens.
- Murdoch faced police and government investigations into bribery and corruption by the British government and FBI investigations in the U.S.
- On 21 July 2012, Murdoch resigned as a director of News International.
- On 1 July 2015, Murdoch left his post as CEO of 21st Century Fox.
- However, Murdoch and his family would continue to own both 21st Century Fox until 2019 and News Corp through the Murdoch Family Trust until 20th Century Fox itself was purchased by Disney.In July 2016, after the resignation of Roger Ailes due to accusations of sexual harassment, Murdoch was named the acting CEO of Fox News.
