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After his father Keith Murdoch died in 1952, Murdoch took over the running of The News, a small Adelaide newspaper owned by his father. 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 .
News Corp was established in 1980 by Rupert Murdoch as a holding company for News Limited.News Limited was founded in 1923 in Adelaide by James Edward Davidson, funded by the Collins House mining empire for the purpose of publishing anti-union propaganda; [9] [10] subsequently the controlling interest was bought by the Herald & Weekly Times.
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When people hear the name Rupert Murdoch, many immediately think of Fox News, but Murdoch is at heart a newspaper man. It's where he got his start in the media business, 60 years ago. Yet News ...
Rupert Murdoch is exploring a combination of Fox News and News Corp. nearly 10 years after they split up. Murdoch moves to reunite companies that own Fox News and the Wall Street Journal Skip to ...
Murdoch's newspaper interests and other media assets are held by News Corp, which is also under his control. On September 21, 2023, Rupert Murdoch announced that he was stepping down as the chairman of Fox Corporation, effective November 2023. [13]
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On June 28, 2012, Rupert Murdoch announced that News Corporation's publishing operations would be spun off to form a new, publicly traded company. [8] [9] Murdoch stated that performing this split would "unlock the true value of both companies and their distinct assets, enabling investors to benefit from the separate strategic opportunities resulting from more focused management of each division".