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Rupert Murdoch was born on May 11, 1931 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He was the lonly son of Keith Mudoch and Elizabeth Greene. He is the founder, Chairman and CEO of global media holding company[->0] News Corporation[->1], the world's second-largest media conglomerate[->2]. He has English, Irish and Scottish ancestry. His parents were both born in Melbourne. Keith Murdoch was a renowned war correspondent and later a regional newspaper magnate. He attended the University of Oxford. Murdoch became managing director of Australia's News Limited[->3], inherited from his father, in 1952. . He is the founder, Chairman and CEO of global media holding company[->4] News Corporation[->5], the world's second-largest media conglomerate[->6].

Murdoch attended Geelong Grammar School[->7], where he had his first experience of editing a publication, being co-editor of the school's official journal The Corian and editor of the student journal. He also took his School's cricket team to the National Junior Finals. He worked part-time at the Melbourne Herald and was groomed by his father from an early age to take over the family business. Murdoch read Philosophy, Politics and Economics[->8] at Worcester College, the University of Oxford[->9] in England, where he supported the Labour Party[->10] and managed Oxford Student Publications Limited[->11], the publishing house of Cherwell Newspaper[->12].

Murdoch is a supporter of more open immigration policies in western nations generally. In the United States, Murdoch and chief executives from several major corporations including Hewlett-Packard[->13], Boeing[->14] and Disney[->15] joined New York City[->16] Mayor Michael Bloomberg[->17] to form the Partnership for a New American Economy[->18] to advocate "for immigration reform – including a path to legal status for all undocumented immigrants now in the United States." The coalition, reflecting Murdoch and Bloomberg's own views, also advocates significant increases in legal...