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Rupert Murdoch wearing glasses, a black suit, white shirt, and black tie, posing at the 2019 Vanity Fair Oscar Party.
The king of conservative media Rupert Murdoch, shown in 2019, amassed a media empire that includes Fox News, The New York Post, and The Wall Street Journal.

Rupert Murdoch

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Rupert Murdoch (born March 11, 1931, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is an Australian-born American newspaper publisher and media entrepreneur who founded (1979) the global media holding company the News Corporation Ltd.—often called News Corp. It focused on publishing after a reorganization in which its media and television holdings were spun off (2013) as 21st Century Fox and largely sold (2019). That sale resulted in the creation of Fox Corporation, which included Fox News and other TV...

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