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Rupert Murdoch
Keith Rupert Murdoch is an Australian-born American former 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, in Australia, in the United States, book publisher HarperCollins, and the television broadcasting channels Sky News Australia and…
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business · Australian-American business magnate (born 1931) · publisher · entrepreneur · financier · businessperson · media proprietor · also Rupert Murdoch, Keith Rupert Murdoch, Murdoch, Keith Murdoch, Keiþ Murdoch, Keiþ Rupert Murdoch
Born 11 March 1931 · Q53944
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2026· 5 entries
The New York Times: Rupert Murdoch Biopic Is Among Premieres at Venice Film Festival
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The Guardian: Best Australian books out in July: Rupert Murdoch, unhinged short stories and a psychosexual thriller
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The Guardian: ‘This is the dark art’: new book claims pattern of personal attacks by Murdoch media empire
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2025· 1 entry
Reported claimRated False. There has been no law or action to ban Murdoch or his companies in New Zealand. · AAP
AAP rated the claim “Rupert Murdoch has been banned from having a media platform in New Zealand.” False. There has been no law or action to ban Murdoch or his companies in New Zealand..
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2023· 5 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “Rupert Murdoch said, “When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies — and I'm proud of the ones I've got.”” Correct Attribution.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “As spectators for Super Bowl LVII at State Farm Stadium on Feb. 12, 2023, Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch sat together for at least a portion of the event.” True.
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Murdoch, who is quarter Irish, proposed to his partner, Ann Lesley Smith
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And the Nevada probate commissioner's finding that he was allowed to amend the trust "if he is able to show he is acting in good faith and for the sole benefit of his heirs"
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During a defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News, Murdoch acknowledged that some Fox News commentators were endorsing election fraud claims they knew were false
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2022· 5 entries
AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Rupert Murdoch has been banned from media ownership in New Zealand” False.
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Jacinda Ardern blamed Rupert Murdoch-controlled media for populist anger” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said that the country's politics are less extreme than others' because Rupert Murdoch was never allowed to set up a media outlet there.” False.
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AP News rated the claim “New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said her country doesn't have an issue with the “rage of older white men” because “we've never allowed Rupert Murdoch to set up a media outlet here.”” False.
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PolitiFact rated the claim “Says New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said her country doesn’t have to deal with the “rage of older white men” because “we’ve never allowed Rupert Murdoch to set up a media outlet here.”” False.
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2021· 2 entries
fact checker rated the claim “Rupert Murdoch admitted to creating fake news stories about election fraud in order to boost Fox News ratings.” fake.
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Snopes rated the claim “Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch said, "I started Fox News to get rich ... we are not journalists. We are entertainers. We are here for ratings and advertising revenue."” Incorrect Attribution.
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2019· 3 entries
PolitiFact rated the claim “Says Fox News anchor Shepard Smith stepped down after Attorney General William Barr "had a closed door meeting with Rupert Murdoch."” False.
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Murdoch and his new wife Jerry Hall purchased Holmwood, an 18th-century house and estate in the English village of Binfield Heath, some 4 miles (6
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Reported net worth: $7.2B (as of 2019).
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2016· 1 entry
“There is much fake news published about me, but let me make clear that I have never uttered those words.”
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2015· 1 entry
But continued to own the company until it was purchased by Disney in 2019
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2012· 1 entry
Revealed a secret meeting had taken place a month before in which Murdoch briefed Thatcher on his plans for the paper, such as taking on trade unions
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2011· 3 entries
“The questions hanging over Murdoch, USA”
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And was later arrested and questioned on allegations of further criminal activity at the News of the World, specifically the phone hacking scandal
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As advocating more open immigration policies in western nations generally
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2010· 1 entry
News Corporation gave US$1 million to the Republican Governors Association and $1 million to the US Chamber of Commerce
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2009· 4 entries
Murdoch won a media dispute with then Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi
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In response to accusations by Rudd that News Limited was running vendettas against him and his government, Murdoch opined that Rudd was "oversensitive"
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News Corporation reorganised Star; a few of these arrangements were that the original company's operations in East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Middle East were integrated into Fox International Channels, and Star India
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Showed that the network was responsible for nine of the top ten programs in the "Cable News" category at that time
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2007· 3 entries
Awarded Great Immigrants Award (2007).
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“I am not commenting on anything to do with Australian politics. I”
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Murdoch acquired Dow Jones & Company, which gave him such publications as The Wall Street Journal, Barron's Magazine, the Far Eastern Economic Review (based in Hong Kong) and SmartMoney
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2005· 1 entry
Murdoch claimed that Blair described the BBC coverage of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, which was critical of the Bush administration's response, as full of hatred of America
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2004· 1 entry
Murdoch announced that he was moving News Corporation headquarters from Adelaide, Australia to the United States
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2003· 1 entry
Murdoch bought "Rosehearty", an 11 bedroom home on a 5-acre waterfront estate in Centre Island, New York
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2002· 1 entry
Won Bodley Medal (2002).
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2001· 1 entry
Won Centenary Medal (2001).
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1999· 1 entry
Murdoch significantly expanded his music holdings in Australia by acquiring the controlling share in a leading Australian independent label, Michael Gudinski's Mushroom Records; he merged that with Festival Records, and
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1998· 1 entry
Murdoch made an attempt to buy the football club Manchester United F
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1997· 2 entries
The paper began to endorse the Scottish National Party (though not yet its flagship policy of independence), which soon after came to form the first-ever outright majority in the proportionally elected Scottish Parliamen
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The Sun attracted 10 million daily readers
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1996· 2 entries
Awarded Financial Times Person of the Year (1996).
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Murdoch decided to enter the cable news market with the Fox News Channel, a 24-hour cable news station
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1995· 1 entry
Fox became the object of scrutiny from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), when it was alleged that News Ltd
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1994· 1 entry
Had moved from the centre-left to a more centrist position on many economic issues before 1997
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1993· 3 entries
Murdoch's daughter Elisabeth and her husband purchased a pair of NBC-affiliate television stations in California, KSBW and KSBY, with a $35 million loan provided by her father
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Murdoch's Fox Network took exclusive coverage of the National Football Conference (NFC) of the National Football League (NFL) from CBS and increased programming to seven days a week
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News Corporation acquired Star TV (renamed as Star in 2001), a Hong Kong company headed by Richard Li, from Hutchison Whampoa for $1 billion (Souchou, 2000:28), and subsequently set up offices for it throughout Asia
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1990· 1 entry
And, during the 1990s, expanded into Asian networks and South American television
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1987· 2 entries
Murdoch created his global television special, the World Music Video Awards, a special music ceremony award where winners were chosen by viewers in eight countries
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The dismissed workers accepted a settlement of £60 million
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1986· 4 entries
Murdoch bought Misty Mountain, a Wallace Neff designed house on Angelo Drive in Beverly Hills
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Keen to adopt newer electronic publishing technologies, Murdoch consolidated his British printing operations in London, causing bitter industrial disputes
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Murdoch launched a takeover bid for The Herald and Weekly Times, which was the largest newspaper publisher in Australia
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Murdoch introduced electronic production processes to his newspapers in Australia, Britain and the United States
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1985· 1 entry
Awarded Commander First Class of the Order of the White Rose of Finland (1985).
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1984· 2 entries
Awarded Companion of the Order of Australia (1984).
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Murdoch was appointed Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) for services to publishing
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1981· 2 entries
Murdoch acquired the struggling Times and Sunday Times from Canadian newspaper publisher Lord Thomson of Fleet
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Murdoch bought The Times, his first British broadsheet, and, in 1985, became a naturalised American citizen, giving up his Australian citizenship, to satisfy the legal requirement for American television network ownershi
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1977· 1 entry
Murdoch along with columnist James Brady, founded Page Six, gossip column of the New York Post
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1974· 2 entries
Murdoch moved to New York City, to expand into the American market; however, he retained interests in Australia and Britain
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Murdoch moved to New York City, to expand into the American market; however, he retained interests in Australia and the United Kingdom
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1973· 1 entry
When he purchased the San Antonio Express-News
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1972· 2 entries
On a social platform that included universal free health care, free education for all Australians to tertiary level, recognition of the People's Republic of China, and public ownership of Australia's oil, gas and mineral
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Murdoch acquired the Sydney morning tabloid The Daily Telegraph from Australian media mogul Sir Frank Packer, who later regretted selling it to him
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1971· 1 entry
“We have the long-term rights in most countries to major sporting events and we will be doing in Asia what we intend to do elsewhere in the world, that is, use sports as a 'battering ram' and a lead offering in all our pay television operations.”
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1969· 1 entry
Taking over the News of the World, followed closely by The Sun
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1968· 1 entry
Murdoch entered the British newspaper market with his acquisition of the populist News of the World, followed in 1969 with the purchase of the struggling daily The Sun from IPC
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1967· 1 entry
Murdoch married Anna Torv, a Scottish-born cadet journalist working for his Sydney newspaper The Daily Mirror
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1964· 1 entry
Murdoch launched The Australian, Australia's first national daily newspaper, which was based first in Canberra and later in Sydney
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1956· 1 entry
Murdoch married Patricia Booker, a former shop assistant and flight attendant from Melbourne; the couple had their only child, Prudence, in 1958
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1953· 1 entry
Studied at University of Oxford, Master of Arts (1953).
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1952· 2 entries
Murdoch's mother did charity work as the life governor of the Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne and established the Murdoch Children's Research Institute; at the age of 102 (in 2011), she had 74 descendants
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Murdoch took over the running of The News, a small Adelaide newspaper owned by his father
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1931· 1 entry
Born 1931-03-11.
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