Keith Rupert Murdoch is an Australian-born American billionaire businessman who has a net worth of $22.4 billion as of 28th July 2021, leaving him the 31st richest person in the United States and the 71st richest in the world.
Murdoch is known for being:
The Chairman and CEO of News Corporation in 1980 to 2013.
Executive chairman of News Corp in 2013 to the present day.
Chairman and CEO of 21st Century Fox in 2013 to 2015.
Executive Co-chairman of 21st Century Fox in 2015 to 2019.
Acting CEO of Fox News in 2016 to 2018.
Chairman of Fox News in 2016 to 2019.
Chairman of Fox Corporation in 2019 to the present day.
July 2011, Murdoch, along with his youngest son James, provided testimony before a British parliamentary committee regarding phone hacking.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers informed the Leveson Inquiry that police are investigating a “network of corrupt officials” as part of their inquiries into phone hacking and police corruption and Murdoch responded with “Why are the police behaving in this way? It’s the biggest inquiry ever, over next to nothing.”
In connection with Murdoch’s testimony to the Leveson Inquiry “into the ethics of the British press”, editor of Newsweek International, Tunku Varadarajan, referred to him as “the man whose name is synonymous with unethical newspapers”.
Rupert appointed Albert ‘Larry’ Lamb as editor and Lamb recalled later – told him: “I want a tearaway paper with lots of tits in it”.
