His success, nurtured by his charismatics, arouses both interest and admiration.
Brief Introduction of Rupert Murdoch's Life Experience.
The Early Years.
Rupert Murdoch was born in Australia on March 11, 1931. His father, Keith Murdoch was a renowned war correspondent and later became a regional newspaper magnate and owning two newspapers in Adelaide, South Australia, and a radio station in a small mining town. In 1952, his father died of a heart attack; Murdoch got home to take charge of the family business from the United Kingdom that he studied at the University of Oxford. However, after the liquidation, Murdoch finds several newspapers of his father are in the loss, and he managed to keep the Sunday Mail and the News two newspapers and other newspapers for sale. Facing the main competitor, Murdoch acquiring it decisive and efforts to make the newspaper profitable. At the same time he raised enough money, bought the troubled Sunday Times in Perth. By adjusting the staff, transferred reporters and editors will be Adelaide to Perth, the newspaper back to life.
Activities in Australia and New Zealand.
The Sydney newspaper industry dominated by three families: Fairfax is the larger one, the Parker family, and the smaller one Norton family. The Fairfax runs the Sun Evening newspaper, the Pioneer Morning Post; the Parker, owner of the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph; Norton in charge of the Mirror and the Sunday Mirror. Due to the poor management, Norton was transferred the Mirror to Feierfasite, Feierfasite also failed to make it profitable, and sold out to Rupert Murdoch for $4 million. In addition, Murdoch also received a number of printers. Soon, Murdoch began to set up Australia's first national newspaper. On July 14, 1964, he official released The Australian. In 1967, the circulation went to 75,000. In 1972, he acquired the Daily News and the Sunday Telegraph that owned by Australian media mogul the Parker family who later regretted selling it to him.