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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 (née Greene; 1909–2012). [24] [25]: 9 He is of English, Irish and Scottish ancestry. His parents were also born in Melbourne.
Sir Keith Arthur Murdoch (12 August 1885 – 4 October 1952) was an Australian journalist and media proprietor who was the founder of the Murdoch media empire. He amassed significant media holdings in Australia which after his death were expanded globally by his son Rupert. Murdoch was born in Melbourne, the son of a
Keith Arthur Murdoch, later Sir Keith Murdoch, was born in West Melbourne and grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Camberwell. [10] He became prominent as a journalist, while serving as a war correspondent during World War I .
Dame Elisabeth Joy Murdoch, Lady Murdoch AC DBE (née Greene; 8 February 1909 – 5 December 2012), also known as Elisabeth, Lady Murdoch, was an Australian philanthropist and matriarch of the Murdoch family. She was the wife of Australian newspaper publisher Sir Keith Murdoch and the mother of international media proprietor Rupert Murdoch.
News Corp was established in 1980 by Rupert Murdoch as a holding company for News Limited.News Limited was founded in 1923 in Adelaide by James Edward Davidson, funded by the Collins House mining empire for the purpose of publishing anti-union propaganda; [9] [10] subsequently the controlling interest was bought by the Herald & Weekly Times.
In 1952, Rupert Murdoch inherited The News, a tabloid newspaper based in Adelaide, South Australia, after the death of his father Keith.In the years following, he acquired several newspapers in the United Kingdom and the United States, including News of the World, The Sun, the New York Post, and founded Sky News and Fox News.
It chronicles the lives of two media barons, Richard Armstrong and Keith Townsend, from their starkly contrasting childhoods to their ultimate battle to build the world's biggest media empire. The book is based on two real life media barons – Robert Maxwell and Rupert Murdoch , [ 1 ] who fought to control the newspaper market in Britain.
Sir Keith Murdoch acquired a minority interest in the company in 1949. [9] Following his death in 1952, his son Rupert Murdoch inherited The News, which has been described by Murdoch biographer Bruce Page [10] as the "foundation stone" of News Limited (and News Corporation).