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RUPERTMURDOCH

HIGH-POWERED MEDIA MOGUL

01 HIS

COMPANY IS

IN OVER 70

COUNTRIES
With an annual
revenue of over $31
billion (£19 billion),
News Corp’s reach
extends across the KEITHRUPERT
MURDOCH
planet. It boasts 300 Australian-American, 1931-present
million cable subscribers Business magnate
and 175 newspapers in over Brief Murdoch inherited
Australia’s News Limited
Bio fromhisfather.Hecame
70 countries across the globe, to dominate the media
as CEO of News Corporation,
easily reaching over 400 20thCenturyFoxandBritish
newspapers News Of The World,
million consumers every week The Sun and The Times.Murdoch
wasforcedtoresignasdirector
in the US, Indian, Europe and of News International in July 2012
after allegations of phone hacking,
the Middle East. bribery and corruption.

Aged 22 he ran He is an offi cial At the Leveson His divorce broke
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02 wo newspapers 03 holy knight 04 Inquiry he was 05 records
Murdoch was groomed to take over Despite not being Catholic himself, questioned for 4 hours When Murdoch divorced his wife
his father’s media business, but it Murdoch was made a Knight of In 2012 the media mogul was Anna Torv it broke records as one
happened earlier than expected when the Order of Saint Gregory the summoned to appear before an of the most expensive divorces in
his dad died of a heart attack in 1952. Great by Pope John Paul II, an inquiry investigating allegations of history. Although the two separated
He refocused one of the papers to honour bestowed on people in phone hacking at the News Of The on friendly terms, Anna received
sport and celebrity news, and while recognition of their personal service World. At the Leveson Inquiry he a reported £1 billion ($1.7 billion)
this garnered criticism the circulation to the Church. While married admitted that the scandal had been divorce settlement from her
grew. Three years after taking control to the Roman-Catholic Anna a, “serious blot on my reputation” but ex-husband, who was keen to state
he bought another newspaper and Torv, Murdoch contributed large claimed to have not known phone that it would have no effect on his
began expanding his media empire. donations to many Catholic causes. hacking was going on at the paper. business interests.

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