Rupert Murdoch

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Name:	Rupert Murdoch
Age:	79 (b. 1931)

Industries:

Media

2009 Compensation:

$19,887,610

Roles:

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer: News Corp

Chm & CEO, Board of Directors: News America Incorporated

Chm: The Wall Street Journal

Board of Directors: Associated Press

Lists:

#28	Highest Compensated Executives (2007)
#26	Highest Compensated Executives (2008)
#3	Highest Salaries (2007)
#2	Highest Salaries (2008)

Rupert Murdoch has been Chief Executive Officer of News Corporation since 1979 and its Chairman since 1991. Murdoch is the father of James R. Murdoch and Lachlan K. Murdoch, both directors of News Corporation. After inheriting a single newspaper, Murdoch acquired and launched several newspapers in his native Australia before expanding the company first into the UK, and later into the US and Asian markets. His assets include the New York Post, FOX News Channel, Fox Television, Dow Jones, the London

Rupert Murdoch has been Chief Executive Officer of News Corporation since 1979 and its Chairman since 1991. Murdoch is the father of James R. Murdoch and Lachlan K. Murdoch, both directors of News Corporation.

After inheriting a single newspaper, Murdoch acquired and launched several newspapers in his native Australia before expanding the company first into the UK, and later into the US and Asian markets. His assets include the New York Post, FOX News Channel, Fox Television, Dow Jones, the London Times and MySpace.

With a stable of newspapers, television networks, web sites and film companies in his portfolio, Murdoch is the epitome of the term "Media Mogul."

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3 hours:

Audit Notes: Battle of NYC, Fed, Complexity, Big Mac Subsidies

About the last thing we need now is a newspaper war, but Rupert Murdoch is Rupert Murdoch, so here we go. Crain's New York looks at the looming Battle for New York, for which the air war has already started. You can see why Rupert, bolstered by his Avatars and his Glenn Becks, thinks he has a lot to... - read more at Columbia Journalism Review - Master RSS Feed

5 hours:

Times Online Blocks Media Monitor Meltwalter

Public relations news monitor Meltwater, which is still refusing to pay UK newspapers for crawling their websites, has now been blocked from indexing Times Online, the most serious of Rupert Murdoch's UK newspapers. The news site, which is due to go behind a paywall this spring and which had already ... - read more at PaidContent.co.uk

tags: Google News International

7 hours:

npr

At least two major news media outlets aren't going to let the iPad's lack of Flash support keep owners of Apple's latest creation away from their content. The Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal (WSJ)WSJ) and National Public Radio (NPR) are working on iPad-specific versions of their websites, set to launch next month alongside ... - read more at The Apple Blog

tags: Apple AT&T Google News Corp Wall Street Journal (WSJ)

8 hours:

News Corp. rumored selling MySpace for $700 million

News Corp. is frantically trying to sell MySpace, a short but potentially major rumor maintained this afternoon. Company head Rupert Murdoch is said by SAI to be "desperately" looking for a buyer and has been talking to private equity firms as possible candidates. The social network would be tentatively ... - read more at Electronista

tags: News Corp MySpace

9 hours:

MySpace Is For Sale And Rupe Wants ~$700 Million (NWS)

News Corp. (NWS) chairman Rupert Murdoch desperately wants to sell social network MySpace, we've heard from industry sources. His pitch to private equity firms is said to be $700 million. Read the rest of this story »See Also:AOL Ad Sales Re-Org Shuffled 80% Of AccountsThe Real Reason AOL Can't ... - read more at Silicon Alley Insider

tags: NWS MySpace

10 hours:

Study: Television Industry as Sexist as Rest of World [Media ...

In your bulleted Tuesday media column: the TV industry is mean to women, Jeff Goldberg escapes the PLO, Justin Rocket Silverman's new job, and Rupert Murdoch loses hundreds of millions, haha. More » - read more at Gawker

12 hours:

In New York, clubbing the governor

Perhaps Emperors Club VIP played a larger part in the installation of David Paterson (D) as New York's governor than the framers of the state's constitution would have liked -- but the fact remains that regardless of the shenanigans of "Client Number 9," Paterson is a legally elected official. The media, ... - read more at Washington Post

tags: New York Post New York Daily News Mortimer Zuckerman

3/15/10:

Should Microsoft Employees Openly Use Iphones

It's like Katie Holmes telling Tom Cruise she prefers Brad Pitt's movies. It's like Rupert Murdoch's wife googling a Wall Street Journal article to get past the paywall. It's like Reggie Bush telling ... - read more at Japan Herald

tags: Wall Street Journal

3/15/10:

Isn't President Obama a little busy to be concerning himself ...

Apparently there was some sort of media summit in Abu Dhabi recently, and a big topic of discussion was copyright infringement. (I think we need to reserve the word “piracy” for actual, sea-faring piracy, not kids grabbing the random Sublime song off LimeWire.) Rupert Murdoch called on governments ... - read more at CrunchGear

3/15/10:

Howell Raines: “Why has our profession … helped Fox legitimize ...

For the first time since the yellow journalism of a century ago, the United States has a major news organization devoted to the promotion of one political party…. In a bygone era of fact-based commentary typified, left to right, by my late colleagues Scotty Reston and Bill Safire, these deceptions would ... - read more at Alternative Energy News

tags: NYT Fox News Corp Wall Street Journal New York Post Washington Post Roger Ailes Neil Cavuto

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Rupert Murdoch Insider Ownership:*

Ticker Name Price Change

NWSA News Corp 14.03 -0.23 (-1.61%)

NWSA intra-day stock price chart:

Rupert Murdoch NWSA ownerships:

# shares	Nature of ownership	Last reported
14,540	direct	2009-08-15
37,402	indirect - By K. Rupert Murdoch 2004 Revocable Trust	2008-05-13
8,729,432	indirect - By GCM Trust	2007-01-31
2,000	indirect - By wife	2004-11-12
2,800	indirect - By children	2004-11-12
4,012,402	indirect - By K. Rupert Murdoch 2004 Revocable Trust	2004-11-12