Top 25 Market Movers
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Rupert Murdoch
Chairman, News Corp.
From the halls of Oxford and the scrappy Adelaide News to the venerated offices of the Wall Street Journal, Murdoch has made his name as a kind of media makeover artist. Say what you like, but, God love him, the man is downright bullish on newspapers.
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"Mass media will go on."
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Bio
Date of Birth: 3/11/1931
Hometown: Melbourne, Australia
Education: PPE from Oxford University
Trivia
Murdoch became such a close friend of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, he was "effectively a member of Blair's cabinet," according to a Blair spokesman.