Rupert Murdoch’s Media Empire Founder of News Corporation, Ltd., which has holdings in cable, film, television, internet, direct broadcast satellite television, sports, publishing and other fields.
Murdoch has been compared to William Randolph Hearst, who is often considered the founder of tabloid-style journalism.
he went to Oxford university
he is worth $17.1 billion
for his first job he worked as an editor on Lord Beaverbrooks London daily express
he was an Australian newspaper publisher and media entrepreneur
He was the son of a famous war correspondent and publisher
in 1953, his father dies , leaving him to inherit 2 Adelaide newspapers in 1954
He boosted their circulation by emphasising the problems of crime, sex, scandal, sports and human interest stories.
Papers were bought in Australia, Britain, and the US by his global media holding company (The news correspondent ltd)
By 2000, Murdoch’s News Corporation owned over 800 companies in more than 50 countries
Has a net worth of over $5 billion
Tries to cover-up of abuses at News of the World but later admits this
n 2011, evidence indicated that newspaper staffers had engaged in illegal and unethical behaviour, notably the hacking of mobile phone mailboxes belonging to celebrities, murder victims, and British soldiers killed in the Afghanistan War.
Murdoch issues an apology for the phone hacking via full page ads in seven national newspapers.
This investigation was later known as the Levenson inquiry.
