Rupert Murdoch

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(Media Mogul)
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Murdoch at Les Misérables premiere in Sydney, on 21 December 2012
BornKeith Rupert Murdoch
(1931-03-11) 11 March 1931 (age 93)
Melbourne, Australia
NationalityAmerican
CitizenshipUnited States (naturalised 1985)
Alma materWorcester College, Oxford
OccupationChairman and CEO of News Corporation (1979–2013)
Executive chairman of News Corp (2013–present)
Chairman and CEO of 21st Century Fox (2013–2015)
Executive co-chairman of 21st Century Fox (2015–present)
Net worthDecrease US$13.4 billion (June 2015)[2]
Board member of
News Corp
21st Century Fox
ReligionChristian[3][4]
ParentsKeith Murdoch (1885–1952)
Elisabeth Joy (1909–2012)
ChildrenPrudence (b. 1958)
Elisabeth (b. 1968)
Lachlan (b. 1971)
James (b. 1972)
Grace (b. 2001)
Chloe (b. 2003)[5]
SpousesPatricia Booker
(1956–1967, 1 child)
Anna Murdoch Mann
(1967–1999, 3 children)
Wendi Deng
(1999–2013, 2 children)[6]
AwardsCompanion of the Order of Australia (1984)[7]
RelativesJanet Calvert-Jones (sister)
Anne Kantor (sister)
Helen Handbury (sister)
Matthew Freud (son-in-law)
Sarah Murdoch (daughter-in-law)

Keith Rupert Murdoch [8] (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian American business magnate. Murdoch became managing director of Australia's News Limited, inherited from his father Sir Keith Arthur Murdoch in 1952. Rupert Murdoch is the founder, chairman and CEO of global media holding company News Corporation, the world's second-largest media conglomerate, and its successors News Corp and 21st Century Fox after the conglomerate split on 28 June 2013.[9][10][11][12]

In the 1950s and '60s, Rupert Murdoch acquired various 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. He moved to New York City in 1974 to expand into the US market, but retained interests in Australia and Britain. In 1981, he bought The Times, his first British broadsheet, and became a naturalised US citizen in 1985 to satisfy the legal requirement for US television ownership.

In 1986, keen to adopt newer electronic publishing technologies, Murdoch consolidated his UK printing operations in Wapping, causing bitter industrial disputes. His News Corporation acquired Twentieth Century Fox (1985), HarperCollins (1989)[13] and The Wall Street Journal (2007). He 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, Rupert 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. He faces police and government investigations into bribery and corruption by the British government and FBI investigations in the US.[14][15] On 21 July 2012, Murdoch resigned as a director of News International.[16][17] On July 1, 2015, Murdoch left his post as CEO of 21st Century Fox.[18]

References

  1. ↑ "How The 25 Richest People In Media Got That Way"
  2. ↑ "Rupert Murdoch profile". Forbes. Retrieved December 22, 2014.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
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  5. ↑ "Rupert Murdoch and His Family". International Business Times. 9 July 2011. Retrieved 24 July 2011.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
  6. ↑ "Rupert Murdoch files for divorce from Wendi Deng". BBC News. 13 June 2013. Retrieved 27 June 2013.Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
  7. ↑ "Honours". Government of Australia. Retrieved 27 February 2010. AC AD84. For service to the media, particularly the newspaper publishing industryPage Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
  8. ↑ Wells, John C. (2008), Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (3rd ed.), Longman, p. 526, ISBN 9781405881180Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
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