Rupert Murdoch is known as an Australian- American businessman tycoon and media proprietor who has several media institutions under his company News Corp.
Through News Corp, Murdoch owns a lot of local, national, and international publishing outlets including The Sun and The Times (UK), The Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun, and The Australian (Australia), The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post (United States of America).
Murdoch is also the owner of book publisher HarperCollins, and the television broadcasting channels Sky News Australia and Fox News (through the Fox Corporation).
How did Rupert Murdoch become a US citizen?
In 1952, following the death of his father, Sir Keith Arthur Murdoch, Rupert took over the running of the Murdoch media empire which was owned by his father.
He then acquired many newspapers in Australia and New Zealand before enlarging into the United Kingdom in 1969.
Murdoch moved to New York City in 1974 with the focus of expanding into the US market, however, he retained interests in Australia and the UK.
Following the buying of his first British broadsheet The Times in 1981, he subsequently became a naturalized US citizen in 1985, giving up his Australian citizenship to satisfy the legal requirement for US television network ownership.