Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch
Keith Rupert Murdoch /ˈmɜːrdɒk/, AC, KCSGis an Australian-born American media mogul. His father, Keith Arthur Murdoch, had been a reporter and editor and a senior executive of the Herald and Weekly Times newspaper publishing company covering all Australian states except New South Wales. After his father's death in 1952 Keith Rupert Murdoch declined to join his late father's registered public company and created his own private company, News Limited. Murdoch thus had full control as Chairman and CEO of global...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth11 March 1931
CityMelbourne, Australia
CountryUnited States of America
I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible.
Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.
One thing I resent is the slur that I just support political candidates because of the business.
You've got to look for a gap, where competitors in a market have grown lazy and lost contact with the readers or the viewers.
The current days of the Internet will soon be over.
Climate change and energy use are global problems. News Corp is a global company. Our operations affect the environment all over the world.
Imagine if we succeed in inspiring our audiences to reduce their own impacts on climate change by just one percent. That would be like turning the State of California off for almost two months.
We're not a manufacturer, or an airline, but we do use energy. Printing and publishing newspapers, producing films, broadcasting television signals, operating 24-hour newsrooms. It all adds carbon to the atmosphere.
We do recognize the fact that the share price at the moment is rotten, ... There's some disconnect between our company's growth and the share price.
We are in advanced negotiations to buy a controlling interest in what we think is a wonderful search engine, but (for what) you will think is an insignificant price,
We're in pretty intense discussions with the biggest cable companies, and making quite considerable progress. You can expect something fairly soon.