Keith rupert murdoch (1931March11) was born in Melbourne, Australia and later became an American citizen. His father, sirkeith murdoch, was a famous war correspondent and publisher. Murdoch graduated from college of wooster, Oxford University and worked as an assistant editor in London's Daily Express. From 65438 to 0952, he returned to Australia to run the Adelaide Daily, where his father was on the verge of bankruptcy. 1956 acquired Perth Sunday Weekly. 1960 bought the Sydney Daily Mirror and the Sydney Daily. The Australian newspaper was founded on 1964. 1969 controls the British weekly News of the World and Sun Daily. 1973, he bought The San Antonio News and The Star. 1976 successively acquired new york Post and new york Magazine Company. 198 1 year, bought The Times and The Sunday Times and their three weekly magazines, thus controlling 30% of the newspaper circulation in Britain. Later, he bought the Chicago Sun Times in the United States and took control of Warner Communications, an influential company in the film and press. Murdoch is also the chairman of Anjie Airlines, American Publishing Company, City Post Publishing Company and International News Limited. 198 1 year served as the vice chairman of Time Holdings Limited, and 1982 served as the chairman. 65438-0984, former manager of Reuters Holdings Limited, and later general manager of Murdoch News Company. Murdoch News, which he founded, is one of the major newspaper departments in Australia. In addition to operating television, it also owns dozens of newspapers and magazines in Australia, Britain, the United States and New Zealand. In 1990s, Murdoch established a TV media kingdom-Fox in the United States, which stood shoulder to shoulder with the three major TV networks: CBS, NBC and ABC.

News Corp., founded by Murdoch, is one of the largest and most internationalized comprehensive media companies in the world, with net assets exceeding 40 billion dollars. Its core business covers the production and distribution of movies and TV programs, wireless TV, satellite TV and cable TV broadcasting, the publication of newspapers, magazines and books, and the development of digital broadcasting, encryption and viewing management systems. 1In March, 1999, the Beijing representative office of News Corporation was established. The following year, Star Media set up a representative office in Shanghai, becoming the first overseas media company to be allowed to set up a representative office in Shanghai.

At present, Murdoch controls two-thirds of Australian newspapers, and 40% of British newspapers such as The Sun and The Times are controlled by Murdoch. He also owns British Sky TV, American Fox TV and Hong Kong Asia TV. After the arrival of the Internet era, Murdoch announced that he would jointly establish a financial enterprise Softbank with Japanese companies to expand Internet investment.

In July 2005, News Corporation acquired Intermix Media, the parent company of MySpace at that time, for $580 million in cash, thus entering the field of online news blogs and social networks, and owning this popular SNS website and "lifestyle portal".