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| | Rupert Murdoch at AllExperts |
 | | His father was Sir Keith Murdoch, a well-connected member of the Australian gentry, working as a journalist and adviser to Billy Hughes, the Prime Minister of Australia during World War I, and who became Australia's most influential newspaper executive and media owner, directing The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd., based in Melbourne. |
 | | Murdoch moved to Britain in the mid-60s, and rapidly became a major force there after his acquisitions of the News of the World, The Sun, and later The Times and Viz, which he bought in 1981 from the Thomson family, who had bought it from the Astor family in 1966. |
 | | Murdoch's eldest son Lachlan, formerly the deputy chief operating officer at the News Corporation and the publisher of the New York Post, was Murdoch's heir apparent before resigning from his executive posts at the global media company at the end of July 2005. |
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