biography
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Murdoch, (Keith) Rupert
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| male
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| lived:
| (1931– )
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| biography:
| Media proprietor, born in Melbourne, Victoria, SE Australia. He studied at Oxford, then worked for two years on the Daily Express, returning to Australia in 1952, where he inherited The News in Adelaide on the death of his father. He built a substantial newspaper and magazine publishing empire in Australia, the USA, Hong Kong, and the UK, including the News of the World and the Sun which, boosted by his ‘page three’ feature, maintained its lead in the circulation war. In 1981 his company, News International, acquired The Times and The Sunday Times after a bitter struggle. He moved into the American market in 1976 with the purchase of the New York Post, then acquired The New York Magazine Company, whose titles include The New York Magazine, New West, and Village Voice. He also has major business interests in other media industries, especially television, films and publishing, on three continents. He became a US citizen in 1985. |
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