Australian Emigrants to the United States: Rupert Murdoch, Errol Flynn, Rick Springfield, Percy Grainger, Walter Travis, Helen Reddy

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 55. Chapters: Rupert Murdoch, Errol Flynn, Rick Springfield, Percy Grainger, Walter Travis, Helen Reddy, Harry Bridges, Melissa George, Portia de Rossi, Ken Ham, James Wolfensohn, Coral Browne, John Harsanyi, Paul Scully-Power, Philip K. Chapman, Phil Dent, John-Michael Howson, Andy Thomas, Richard Pestell, John Farrow, John Davies, Dominic Purcell, Tristan Rogers, Akshay Venkatesh, Cameron Stephenson, Paul Ferdinand Schilder, Jacinda Barrett, Pat Sullivan, Ann Richards, Clyde Packer, Ian Masters, Joe Kirkwood, Jr.. Excerpt: Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC, KSG (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian American business magnate. He is the founder and Chairman and CEO of, the world's second-largest media conglomerate. In 1953, Murdoch became managing director of News Limited, inherited from his father. He acquired troubled newspapers in Australia and New Zealand during the 1950s and '60s before expanding into the UK in 1969, taking over the News of the World and then the The Sun, which he built into Britain's best selling daily. He moved to New York in 1974 and expanded into the US market, and in 1985 he became a US citizen. In 1981, he bought The Times, his first British broadsheet. In 1986, keen to adopt newer electronic publishing technologies, he consolidated his UK printing operations in Wapping, causing bitter industrial disputes. His News Corporation acquired Twentieth Century Fox (1985), HarperCollins (1989) and The Wall Street Journal (2007). He formed BSkyB in 1990 and during the 1990s expanded into Asian networks and South American television. By 2000 Murdoch's News Corporation owned over 800 companies in more than 50 countries with a net worth of over $5 billion. In July 2011 Murdoch faced allegations that his companies including the News of the World, owned by News Corporation, had been regularly hacking the phones of private c...