Rupert Murdoch
Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC, KCSG is an Australian-born American media mogul who founded News Corp. Murdoch’s father, Sir Keith Murdoch, was a reporter and editor who became a senior executive of The Herald and Weekly Times publishing company, covering all Australian states except New South Wales.
- Murdoch controls a media empire that includes cable channel Fox News, The Times of London and The Wall Street Journal.
- Murdoch sold most of Fox’s movie studio, FX and National Geographic Networks and its stake in Star India to Disney for $71.3 billion in March 2019.
- Murdoch’s son, Lachlan, runs the new Fox, which consists of its broadcast, cable news, business and sports networks.
- Though several of his companies are known for their conservative tilt, he initially urged Mike Bloomberg to run for president against Donald Trump.
- A native of Australia, Murdoch inherited a newspaper at age 22 after his father, a former war correspondent, passed away.
