However, the 92-year-old is also seen as a controversial figure and has attracted his share of scandal.
In 2011 he was forced to close down the UK’s biggest newspaper, the News of the World, after it became mired in allegations of phone hacking.
In 2011 he was forced to close down the UK’s biggest newspaper, the News of the World, after it became mired in allegations of phone hacking.
Born in Melbourne in 1931, Murdoch developed an interest in the media at a young age. While at Oxford University in the UK he tried to buy the student newspaper and flirted with left-wing politics – putting a bust of Lenin on his mantelpiece and canvassing for the country’s Labour party.
His father Sir Keith Murdoch, one of Australia’s most distinguished newspapermen, died in 1953 and left the family a controlling share of a single newspaper, the Adelaide News. Rupert returned from Britain to run it aged 22.
He quickly expanded the business, buying a string of other titles in Australia and New Zealand and growing their circulation by employing racy tabloid techniques imported from the UK.
He was known to personally write headlines and redesign pages, although he claimed he gave editors a great deal of freedom. “The only ones who claim I don’t are the ones who don’t know how to use it,” he once said.
In 2011 he was forced to close down the UK’s biggest newspaper, the News of the World, after it became mired in allegations of phone hacking.
However, the 92-year-old is also seen as a controversial figure and has attracted his share of scandal.
In 2011 he was forced to close down the UK’s biggest newspaper, the News of the World, after it became mired in allegations of phone hacking.
In 2011 he was forced to close down the UK’s biggest newspaper, the News of the World, after it became mired in allegations of phone hacking.
Born in Melbourne in 1931, Murdoch developed an interest in the media at a young age. While at Oxford University in the UK he tried to buy the student newspaper and flirted with left-wing politics – putting a bust of Lenin on his mantelpiece and canvassing for the country’s Labour party.
His father Sir Keith Murdoch, one of Australia’s most distinguished newspapermen, died in 1953 and left the family a controlling share of a single newspaper, the Adelaide News. Rupert returned from Britain to run it aged 22.
He quickly expanded the business, buying a string of other titles in Australia and New Zealand and growing their circulation by employing racy tabloid techniques imported from the UK.
He was known to personally write headlines and redesign pages, although he claimed he gave editors a great deal of freedom. “The only ones who claim I don’t are the ones who don’t know how to use it,” he once said.
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