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In 1981, The Times and The Sunday Times were bought from Thomson by Rupert Murdoch's News International. [38] The acquisition followed three weeks of intensive bargaining with the unions by company negotiators John Collier and Bill O'Neill. Murdoch gave legal undertakings to maintain separate journalism resources for the two titles. [39]
In 2016, Forbes ranked "Rupert Murdoch & Family" as the 35th most powerful person in the world. [255] According to Forbes' 2017 real-time list of world's billionaires, Murdoch was the 34th richest person in the US and the 96th richest person in the world, with a net worth of US$13.1 billion as of February 2017. [256]
Rupert Murdoch cannot amend his family trust to put the power of his media companies in the hands of his chosen successor, a Nevada commissioner has ruled. ... According to the Times, Gorman wrote ...
The target was Britain's largest privately owned newspaper empire, News International (parent of The Times and News of the World and others, all owned by Rupert Murdoch). He wanted to introduce technological innovations that would put 90% of the old-fashioned typesetters out of work.
In the U.K., Murdoch’s The Sun and The Times of London, once kingmakers in British elections, are struggling to lobby in the same way they did at the turn of the century.
Prince Harry claimed victory in his long-running legal battle against Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper group, after reaching a deal to settle his lawsuit which included an apology for unlawful ...
Times Newspapers Limited publishes the compact daily newspaper The Times and the broadsheet The Sunday Times. [citation needed] Times Newspapers was formed in 1967 when the Thomson Corporation purchased The Times from the Astor family and merged it with The Sunday Times, which it had owned since 1959. The company was purchased by Rupert Murdoch ...
In 1952, Rupert Murdoch inherited The News, a tabloid newspaper based in Adelaide, South Australia, after the death of his father Keith.In the years following, he acquired several newspapers in the United Kingdom and the United States, including News of the World, The Sun, the New York Post, and founded Sky News and Fox News.