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Immigrant of the Day: Rupert Murdoch (Australia)

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Murdoch Rupert Murdoch (born Melbourne, Australia March 11, 1931) is a global media mogul. He is the major shareholder, chairman and managing director of News Corporation. Beginning with newspapers, magazines and television stations in his native Australia, Murdoch expanded News Corp into the UK, US and Asian media markets. In recent years has become a leading investor in satellite television, the film industry, the Internet and media. 

News Corp is based in New York. According to Forbes, Murdoch is the 32nd wealthiest American, with a net worth of $8.8 billion.

Fox News Channel is part of Murdoch’s empire A native Australian. Murdoch studied at Oxford and inherited Adelaide, an Australia newspaper at age 23.

Murdoch’s success came in U.S.. including the New York Post, Chicago Sun-Times, Fox film studio, broadcasting network and cable news; 38% stake in DirecTV.

Murdoch bought MySpace.com for $580 million last year.

Murdoch is a naturalized U.S. citizen.

KJ