21st September, 2023
Australian-born Rupert Murdoch stepped down as the chairman of Fox Corp and News Corp on Thursday, ending a long reign that saw him develop and lead a global media empire.
He was 92 on 11 March.
The son of a famous war correspondent in Australia, Rupert Murdoch took over his father’s newspaper business in the early 1950s and set about turning it into a global media empire.
He took up residence in the United States in 1974 and became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1985, based in New York City.
Murdoch’s first brush with journalism was at college. His experience as an editor of the Daily Express in London is thought to have shaped his future as he embarked on popularizing tabloid-like journalism.
Murdoch and former San Francisco police chaplain Ann Lesley Smith called off their engagement in April. That would have been the billionaire’ s fifth marriage.