Keith Rupert Murdoch AC KCSG is an Australian-born American media mogul. Through his company News Corp, he is the owner of hundreds of local, national, and international publishing outlets around the world. By 2000, Murdoch’s News Corporation owned over 800 companies in more than 50 countries, with a net worth of over USD 5 billion. Many of Murdoch’s papers and television channels have been accused of biased and misleading coverage to support his business interests and political allies.
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Keith Rupert Murdoch AC KCSG is an Australian-born American media mogul. Through his company News Corp, he is the owner of hundreds of local, national, and international publishing outlets around the world. In July 2011, Murdoch faced allegations that his companies, including the News of the World, had been regularly hacking the phones of celebrities, royalty, and public citizens. By 2000, Murdoch’s News Corporation owned over 800 companies in more than 50 countries, with a net worth of over USD 5 billion. Many of Murdoch’s papers and television channels have been accused of biased and misleading coverage to support his business interests and political allies. 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. Keith Rupert Murdoch was born on 11 March 1931 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, the son of Sir Keith Murdoch and Dame Elisabeth Murdoch. He is of English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry. Keith Murdoch was a war correspondent and later a regional newspaper magnate owning two newspapers in Adelaide, South Australia, and a radio station in a faraway mining town, and chairman of the powerful Herald and Weekly Times publishing company. Later in life, Keith Rupert chose to go by his second name, the first name of his maternal grandfather. He was a member of the Oxford University Labour Party,: 34 stood for Secretary of the Labour Club and managed Oxford Student Publications Limited, the publishing house of Cherwell.
At the age of 102, Murdoch completed an MA before working as sub-editor with the Daily Express for two years. He is the father of 74 descendants of the Murdochs, who had a total of 74 grandchildren and 74 great-grandchildren. He has a son, James Murdoch, who is the CEO of Sky News Australia and Fox News. He also has two daughters, Janet Calvert-Jones, Anne Kantor and Helen Handbury, and two step-granddaughters, Anne Kantor-Jones and Helen Handbury. Murdoch turned Adelaide, The News, its main asset, into a major asset, and became a major player in the Australian media industry. He left Oxford to take charge of what was left of his father’s business when he was 21, when he left the family business to pay taxes, which had been established by his father in 1923. In 1923, Rupert Murdoch turned The News into a main asset of News Limited. In 1953, he bought The Daily Telegraph and The Australian in Australia. 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 Sun, followed closely by The Sun. 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 TV network ownership. In 1986, Murdoch consolidated his UK printing operations in London, causing bitter industrial disputes.
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