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Rupert Murdock Born: 11-march-1931
Birthplace: Melbourne
Gender: Male
Religion: Christian
Nationality: United States
Also Rupert Murdock was 22 his father died Later in 1964, Murdoch launched the Australian, Australia’s first national daily newspaper, which was based first in Canberra and later in Sydney. The Australian, a broadsheet, was intended to give Murdoch new respectability as a 'quality' newspaper publisher, as well as greater political influence. Also 1972 Murdoch released his first newspaper and it was called the daily telegraph. In 1953 Murdock earned Oxford degree.
Murdock personal life
He was named for his father, Sir Keith Murdoch, an Australian newspaper magnate who had been a well-known war reporter during the World War I. His mother, Elisabeth, would later be honoured with the title Dame of the British Empire for her welfare activism. Murdoch and his three sisters were raised in a suburb of Melbourne in a prosperous home, and also spent time on the family’s sheep ranch in the country. At the age of ten he was sent away to boarding school, and as a young adult travelled to England to earn his college degree. Murdoch’s first job in journalism came while still in England when he was hired as a reporter for a paper in Birmingham. He then spent time at London’s famed Daily Express. Rupert Murdoch inherited a small Australian newspaper in 1952 and aggressively turned it into one of the biggest media corporations in the world, News Corp., a conglomerate that includes television, feature films, online services, newspapers and books.
There have been rumors around for quite a while now that Rupert Murdoch – the media tycoon and owner of News Corp, The Wall Street Journal, The Times of London, Fox Broadcasting and lots more – was going to be launching an iPods-only newspaper publication. Now we know that the upcoming title has a name –‘The Daily’ and apparently it is coming quite soon, perhaps by the end of this month. Also Some reports say News Corp may have already invested up to $30 million on getting The Daily going.
