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He was also the owner of Sky until , 21st Century Fox until , and the now-defunct News of the World. After his father Keith Murdoch died in , Murdoch took over the running of The News , a small Adelaide newspaper owned by his father.

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In the s and s, Murdoch acquired a number of newspapers in Australia and New Zealand before expanding into the United Kingdom in , taking over the News of the World , followed closely by The Sun. In , Murdoch bought The Times , his first British broadsheet , and, in , became a naturalized US citizen, giving up his Australian citizenship, to satisfy the legal requirement for US television network ownership.

Murdoch formed the British broadcaster BSkyB in and, during the s, expanded into Asian networks and South American television. In July , Murdoch faced allegations that his companies, including the News of the World , owned by News Corporation, had been regularly hacking the phones of celebrities, royalty, and public citizens. Murdoch faced police and government investigations into bribery and corruption by the British government and FBI investigations in the US.

Many of Murdoch's papers and television channels have been accused of biased and misleading coverage to support his business interests [ 15 ] [ 16 ] [ 17 ] and political allies, [ 18 ] [ 19 ] [ 20 ] and some have linked his influence with major political developments in the UK, US, and Australia. As of September [update] , the Murdoch family is involved in a court case in the US in which his three children Elisabeth , Prudence , and James are challenging their father's bid to amend the family trust to ensure that his eldest son, Lachlan , retains control of News Corp and Fox Corp, rather than the trust benefiting all of his six children, as is specified in its "irrevocable" terms.

His parents were also born in Melbourne.

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Murdoch's father was a war correspondent and later a regional newspaper magnate; he owned two newspapers in Adelaide , South Australia and a radio station in a remote mining town and was chairman of the Herald and Weekly Times publishing company. Murdoch attended Geelong Grammar School , [ 30 ] where he was co-editor of the school's official journal The Corian and editor of the student journal If Revived.

After his father's death from cancer in , Murdoch's mother did charity work as the life governor of the Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne and established the Murdoch Children's Research Institute ; at the age of in , she had 74 descendants. Following his father's death, when he was 21, Murdoch returned from Oxford to take charge of what was left of the family business.

After liquidation of his father's Herald stake to pay taxes, what was left was News Limited , which had been established in The Economist describes Murdoch as "inventing the modern tabloid", [ 37 ] as he developed a pattern for his newspapers, increasing sports and scandal coverage and adopting eye-catching headlines. Murdoch's first foray outside Australia involved the purchase of a controlling interest in the New Zealand daily The Dominion.