About Rupert Murdoch
Keith Rupert Murdoch AC KCSG is an Australian-born American industry icon, media owner, and financial backer. He owns hundreds of local, national, and international publishing outlets worldwide through his company News Corp. These include the UK’s The Sun and The Times, Australia’s The Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun, and The Australian, the US’s Wall Street Journal and New York Post, the book publisher HarperCollins, and the Australian and Fox News television broadcasting channels.
Murdoch took over management of The News, his father’s small Adelaide newspaper, after his death in 1952. Murdoch bought various papers in Australia and New Zealand during the 1950s and 1960s. In 1969, he expanded into the United Kingdom and took over the News of the World, closely followed by The Sun.
Rupert Murdoch Career
On March 11, 1931, Keith Rupert Murdoch was born in Melbourne. He was the second of four children born to Dame Elisabeth and Sir Keith Murdoch (1885–1952). He is of English, Irish, and Scottish lineage. Additionally, his parents were born in Melbourne.
His father worked as a war correspondent before becoming a regional newspaper magnate who owned two newspapers in Adelaide and a radio station in a faraway mining town. He also served as chairman of the Herald and Weekly Times publishing company. Later, he was a war correspondent.
He went to Geelong Language structure School, where he was co-proofreader of the school’s true diary The Corian and supervisor of the understudy diary Whenever Restored. He took the cricket team from his school to the National Junior Finals.
Rupert Murdoch Net Worth
Keith Rupert Murdoch’s net worth was estimated to be approximately $16.8 billion USD in 2023, according to Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires List.
Personal Information
| Full Name | Keith Rupert Murdoch |
| Father’s Name | Keith Murdoch |
| Mother’s Name | Elisabeth Greene |
| Siblings | Helen Handbury, Janet Calvet-Jones, Anne Kantor |
| Date Of Birth | 11 March 1931 |
| Age | 92 Years |
| Birth Place | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Height | 5’ 10” |
| Education | Graduate |
| Net Worth | $17.6 Billion |
| Profession | Businessman, Media Proprietor, Investor |
| Relationship Status | Married |
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