Rupert Murdoch
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 Rupert Murdoch facts

• His father, Keith Arthur Murdoch, had been a reporter, editor and senior executive of the Herald and Weekly Times newspaper publishing company covering all Australian states except New South Wales
• After his father's death in 1952 Keith Rupert Murdoch declined to join his late father's registered public company and created his own private company, News Limited
• Murdoch thus had full control as Chairman and CEO of global media holding company News Corporation, now the world's second-largest media conglomerate, and its successors, News Corp and 21st Century Fox, after the conglomerate split on 28 June 2013
• In the 1950s and 1960s, Murdoch acquired a number of newspapers in Australia and New Zealand, before expanding into the United Kingdom in 1969, taking over the News of the World, followed closely by The Sun
• Murdoch moved to New York City in 1974, to expand into the U
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• market; however, he retained interests in Australia and Britain
• In 1981, Murdoch bought The Times, his first British broadsheet, and became a naturalized U
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• citizen (and as a result, gave up Australian citizenship) in 1985 to satisfy the legal requirement for U