Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC, KCSG born 11th March 1931 in Melbourne, Victoria, usually known as Rupert Murdoch
Murdoch inherits Adelaide News, an Australian mid-size daily, and the Adelaide Sunday Mail. From these assets Murdoch created News Limited
Murdoch began publishing Australia’s first and most successful weekly television magazine, TV Week at Southdown Press in Melbourne
Launches The Australian, Australia’s first national daily newspaper, which is based first in Canberra and later in Sydney
Murdoch expands into Britain. He succeeds in beating rival publisher Robert Maxwell to the acquisition of The News of the World
Acquires the daily newspaper The Sun and turns it into a tabloid format
Acquires the Sydney morning tabloid The Daily Telegraph
Purchases San Antonia Express-News. Soon afterwards he founds Star, a supermarket tabloid
Purchases the New York Post
Takes over The Times and Sunday Times in London
Murdoch becomes United States citizen. News Corp buys TCF Holdings Inc., parent company of 20th Century Fox Film and, separately, seven television stations from Metromedia for $1.55bn. These deals create what is to become known as Fox Broadcasting Company