Rupert Murdoch's Biography
- Rupert Murdoch was born on March 11, 1931, in Melbourne, Australia.
- His father Sir Keith Murdoch was chief executive of the Melbourne Herald newspaper group.
- Rupert Murdoch acquired the high circulation UK newspapers News of the World and The Sun in 1969.
- In the 1970s he bought The New York Post, and several other major US media purchases followed, which included 20th Century Fox Film Studios. Murdoch's News Corporation also purchased Dow Jones & Company, publisher of The Wall Street Journal. Additionally, he launched the Fox TV network.
- In 1981 Murdoch's UK subsidiary News International bought The Times and The Sunday Times. In the mid-1980s, during the Thatcher era, Rupert Murdoch famously took on the powerful print unions in what became known as the Wapping dispute.
- In 1989 he bought the book publishers Collins and set up Sky TV.
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- Rupert Murdoch was married to Patricia Booker, and then Anna Torv and then in 1999 he married Wendi Deng, a Chinese businesswoman with a Yale MBA. His children include James Murdoch (Chairman, News International) and Elizabeth Murdoch (Chief Executive of independent TV production company Shine and wife of Matthew Freud).
- Adam Curtis at the BBC has a notable blog post about Rupert Murdoch with a collection of archive footage.
- In 2011, the News of the World was shut down in a scandal over the alleged hacking of phones, which threatened to engulf Rupert Murdoch's media empire.
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