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Murdoch family
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| Murdoch family | |
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(d).jpg) Keith Murdoch (b).jpg) Rupert Murdoch .jpg) James Murdoch | |
| Current region | Australia United Kingdom United States |
| Place of origin | Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire, Scotland |
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| Connected families | Freud family |
Members of the Murdoch family are prominent international media magnates and media tycoons with roots in Australia and the United Kingdom, along with their media assets in the United States.[1] Some members have also been prominent in the arts, clergy, and military.
Five generations of the family are descended from two Scottish immigrants to Australia: the Reverend James Murdoch (1818–1884), a minister of the Free Church of Scotland and his wife Helen, née Garden (1826–1905).[2] Both were from the Pitsligo area of Aberdeenshire and migrated to the Colony of Victoria in 1884.[2]
Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is known for being one of the founders and the owner of formerly the world's largest media company News Corporation, a company that was spun-off in mid 2013 splitting its entertainment assets to 21st Century Fox and its media publishing assets to form the new News Corp.[3][4][5] Currently the Murdochs still have the controlling interest in the remains of the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by The Walt Disney Company that was spun-off to Fox Corporation, and still remain as top executives of News Corp.[6]
- ^ "About News Corp". News Corp. 15 September 1785. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
- ^ a b Michael J Wood, 2005, Ancestry of Rupert Murdoch Archived 2 June 2017 at the Wayback Machine, William Addams Reitwiesner Genealogical Services (17 August 2013).
- ^ Moyer, Liz (4 December 2017). "Gabelli says media mergers are in the air: 'Scale up' is new mantra". CNBC. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
- ^ "Report: News Corp. board approves company split". Associated Press. 26 March 2015. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
- ^ Seifert, Dan (3 December 2012). "News Corp to split off Fox Group entertainment business". The Verge. Retrieved 6 December 2021.
- ^ "News Corp Leadership". News Corp. Retrieved 5 December 2021.
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