Rupert Murdoch

Extracted Attributes

• Education

  Worcester College, Oxford (M.A., 1953)

• Net Worth

  US$21.7 billion (as of 2022-03-02)

• Occupation

  Business magnate, investor, media mogul, newspaper publisher

• Citizenship

  United States

• Current Role

  Chairman Emeritus of Fox Corporation and News Corp

• Date of Birth

  1931-03-11

• Place of Birth

  Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Political Ideology (historical)

  Neoconservatism

Timeline

• Born Keith Rupert Murdoch in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. (Source: wikidata, web_search_results)

  1931-03-11

• Returned to Australia to take control of News Limited, inheriting The Sunday Mail and The News. (Source: web_search_results)

  1954

• Founded the global media holding company News Corporation Ltd. (later known as News Corp). (Source: web_search_results)

  1979

• Purchased 20th Century Fox Film Corp., expanding into entertainment. (Source: web_search_results)

  1985

• Created Fox Broadcasting Company. (Source: web_search_results)

  1986

• Appointed his younger son, James Murdoch, as chief executive of BSkyB. (Source: web_search_results)

  2003-11

• News Corporation separated into two distinct, publicly traded companies: News Corp and 21st Century Fox. Murdoch became Executive Chairman of News Corp. (Source: web_search_results)

  2013

• Served as Executive Chairman of 21st Century Fox. (Source: web_search_results)

  2015

• Sold Sky. (Source: web_search_results)

  2018

• The merger of 21st Century Fox and The Walt Disney Company closed, leading to the creation of Fox Corporation. (Source: web_search_results)

  2019-03

• Announced his decision to step down as chairman of the board for both Fox Corporation and News Corp. (Source: web_search_results)

  2023-09-21

• Stepped down as Chairman of Fox Corporation and News Corp, assuming the role of Chairman Emeritus for both companies, with Lachlan Murdoch appointed as sole chairman. (Source: web_search_results)

  2023-11

• His media empire is embroiled in a succession war between his sons, Lachlan Murdoch and James Murdoch, for control of assets like Fox News. (Source: related_documents)

  Ongoing

• The dismissal of Tucker Carlson from Fox News is seen as evidence of Murdoch's waning neoconservatism. (Source: related_documents)

  Recent (implied)

Web Search Results

• Rupert Murdoch

  Keith Rupert Murdoch (/ˈmɜːrdɒk/ MUR-dok; born 11 March 1931) is an Australian-American retired business magnate, investor, and media mogul. Through his company News Corp, he is the owner of hundreds of local, national, and international publishing outlets around the world, including in the United Kingdom (The Sun "The Sun (United Kingdom)") and The Times), in Australia (The Daily Telegraph "The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)"), Herald Sun, and The Australian), in the United States (The Wall Street [...] Keith Rupert Murdoch was born on 11 March 1931 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, the second of four children of Sir Keith Arthur Murdoch (1885–1952) and Dame Elisabeth Joy "Elisabeth Murdoch (philanthropist)") (née Greene; 1909–2012).: 9 He is of English, Irish and Scottish ancestry. His parents were also born in Melbourne. Murdoch's father was a war correspondent and later a regional newspaper magnate; he owned two newspapers in Adelaide, South Australia and a radio station in a remote mining [...] Journal and the New York Post), book publisher HarperCollins, and the television broadcasting channels Sky News Australia and Fox News (through Fox Corporation). He was also the owner of Sky (until 2018), 21st Century Fox (until 2019), and the now-defunct News of the World. With a net worth of US$21.7 billion as of 2 March 2022,( Murdoch is the 31st richest person in the United States and the 71st richest in the world according to Forbes magazine. Due to his extensive wealth and influence over

• Rupert Murdoch | Biography, Retirement, & Facts

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• Rupert Murdoch - Biography

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  Rupert Murdoch has proven to be a transformative and prescient entrepreneur, business leader, visionary and dealmaker across every medium of the media industry throughout his nearly 70 year career. Mr. Murdoch currently serves as Chairman Emeritus of both Fox Corporation and News Corp., two of the most recognized and influential media companies in the world. Mr. Murdoch previously served as Chair of Fox Corporation from March 2019 to November 2023 and Executive Chair of News Corp. from 2013 to [...] 2023. Mr. Murdoch was Executive Chairman of 21st Century Fox, one of the leading portfolios of cable, broadcast, film, pay TV and satellite assets, from 2015 to the closing of the merger of 21st Century Fox and The Walt Disney Company in March 2019.Mr. Murdoch served as CEO of 21st Century Fox from its inception as News Corporation in 1979 until 2015 and as its Chairman from 1991 to 2015.

• Rupert Murdoch

  Australian-born businessman Rupert Murdoch inherited the Sunday Mail and the News from his father, a famous war correspondent and newspaper publisher. Murdoch continued to purchase other media outlets over the years, including American newspapers beginning in the 1970s. He branched out into entertainment with the purchase of 20th Century Fox Film Corp. in 1985 and later sparked a transformation of the cable TV landscape by introducing Fox News. Four years after restructuring his empire into two [...] Skip to Content 1. Famous Business Leaders 2. Entrepreneurs 3. Rupert Murdoch # Rupert Murdoch Media magnate Rupert Murdoch is the founder and former head of News Corporation, a global media conglomerate. He created Fox Broadcasting Company in 1986. By Biography.com Editors and Tyler Piccotti Getty Images > 1931–present ## Latest News: Rupert Murdoch Stepping Down as Chairman of Fox and News Corp. [...] On September 21, Fox and News Corp. founder Rupert Murdoch announced he is stepping down as chairman of the board of both companies. According to CNBC, the move will become official in November. The 92-year-old will assume the role of chairman emeritus for News Corp. and Fox. He appointed his son Lachlan Murdoch, 52, as sole chairman of both companies. “For my entire professional life, I have been engaged daily with news and ideas, and that will not change,” Rupert wrote to employees. “But the

• Award

  Great Immigrants Award

• Image

  

• Gender

  male

• Educated At

  Worcester College

• Instance Of

  Q5

• Occupation

  businessperson

• Citizenship

  United States

• Date Of Birth

  3/11/1931

• Place Of Birth

  Melbourne