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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 .
In 2016, Forbes ranked "Rupert Murdoch & Family" as the 35th most powerful person in the world. [ 255 ] According to Forbes' 2017 real-time list of world's billionaires, Murdoch was the 34th richest person in the US and the 96th richest person in the world, with a net worth of US$13.1 billion as of February 2017.
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.
Lachlan Murdoch (born in London), is a media executive and company director; he married the British-Australian model and actress Sarah Murdoch, née O'Hare (b. 1972) in 1999; the couple have three children, [23] [24] Kalan Alexander Murdoch (b. 2004), Aidan Patrick Murdoch (b. 2006) and Aerin Elisabeth Murdoch (b. 2010).
Keith Rupert Murdoch AC KCSG (/ˈmɜːrdɒk/ MUR-dok; born 11 March 1931) is an Australian-born American businessman, media tycoon, and investor.Through his company News Corp, he is the owner of hundreds of local, national, and international publishing outlets around the world, including in the UK (The Sun and The Times), in Australia (The Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun and The Australian), in ...
17 February 2012: Rupert Murdoch flies to London to meet staff from The Sun who are angry at the arrests. [346] 1 March 2012: James Murdoch resigns as executive chairman of News International and as chairman of BSkyB. [17] 2 March 2012: Police arrest The Sun 's defence editor Virginia Wheeler. [347]
On July 21, 2016, Ailes resigned from Fox News, receiving about $40 million (~$49.8 million in 2023) [46] from 21st Century Fox (the then-parent company of 20th Century Fox and Fox News) in an exit agreement. Rupert Murdoch succeeded him as chairman, and as interim CEO until the naming of a permanent replacement.