Rupert Murdoch
11-Mar-1931
United States
Publisher
Rupert Murdoch's father was a prominent military writer and newspaper columnist. Murdoch inherited his father's papers, the Sunday Mail and News, and went on to buy more media over the years. In the 1970's, he began buying American newspapers. Murdoch appeared in entertainment with the acquisition of 20th Century Fox Film Corp. in 1985, and later led to the transformation of the cable TV landscape by introducing Fox News. Four years after reorganizing his empire into two divisions, 21st Century Fox Inc. and News Corp., Murdoch in 2017 sold the 21st Century Fox to the Walt Disney Company.