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Portrait of the Mogul as a Young Man

Born in 1931 in Melbourne, Keith Rupert Murdoch was named for his father Sir Keith Murdoch, a celebrated journalist who later became a newspaper executive. When Murdoch was 22, his father died, prompting the son to return to Australia from the U.K. (where he had been studying at Oxford University) and take over the family business. Beginning with a newspaper in Adelaide, Murdoch built a network of properties in Australia, including purchasing outlets like Sydney tabloid the Daily Mirror, which the young tycoon shows off to a photographer in this photo, taken in 1960.
1931年出生在墨爾本，父親老魯伯特默多克為默多克取名基斯魯伯特默多克，不僅如此，老默多克也是一個著名的記者隨后成為一份報紙的執(zhí)行官。在默多克22歲時，老默多克去世了，這迫使小默多克從正在留學(xué)的英國牛津大學(xué)回到澳大利亞來繼承家業(yè)。從Aselaide起家，默多克在澳大利亞建立了一個報紙網(wǎng)絡(luò)，包括像悉尼小報和每日鏡報。圖中就是這個年輕的企業(yè)家向照相機(jī)展示自己的報紙，攝于1960年。

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Growth

In the late 1960s, Murdoch began to buy properties in the U.K., beginning with the News of the World in 1968. The following year, he would acquire the Sun. Here, he smiles at a press conference in which he outlined his plans for the News of the World.
在20世紀(jì)60年代末，默多克開始在英國收購報紙，第一個就是1968年的《世界新聞報》.之后的幾年，他又收購了太陽報。這張照片里面，他正在一個會議里展示他為世界新聞報所制定的計劃。

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Expansion in the U.K.

In the U.K., Murdoch did not confine himself to tabloids. In 1981 he gained control of the financially strapped but prestigious London Times, along with the Sunday Times, from a Canadian newspaper publisher, Lord Thomson of Fleet. Here, Murdoch is photographed during that year's negotiations with print unions.
在英國，默多克也沒有局限于小報。1981年，他從一個加拿大報業(yè)出版商湯姆遜手中收購了財務(wù)狀況不佳的著名報紙，倫敦《泰晤士報》及其周日版《星期日泰晤士報》。在這張里面，默多克當(dāng)年正在和出版聯(lián)盟談判。

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In the U.S.A.

Murdoch's first property in the U.S. came with his purchase of the San Antonio Express and News in 1973, followed by the New York Post in 1976. His acquisition of the Post, a well-regarded liberal newspaper at the time, surprised many in the publishing world. Here, Murdoch, left, meets with senior editors at the Post in the wake of a 1978 citywide press strike, when employees at the paper reached an agreement with management before their crosstown rivals.
默多克在美國的第一個產(chǎn)業(yè)從他在1973年收購了圣安東尼奧快訊開始，隨后他又在1976年收購了紐約郵報。他收購這份著名的具有獨(dú)立視角的報紙當(dāng)時震驚了世界。這張里面，默多克正準(zhǔn)備離開，之前他參加了一個和高級編輯們的會議，此時正是1978年的報業(yè)大罷工，這些員工在舉行大游行之前剛剛和管理層達(dá)成了一個協(xié)議。

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Second Wife

Murdoch has been married three times. The first marraige, to Patricia Booker, a flight attendant from Melbourne, ended in divorce; they had one child together. He married his second wife, Anna Torv, above, in 1967. She had been a reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald; they had four children together.[/en
]默多克有三次婚姻。第一個是和Patricia Booker，她是一個墨爾本航線上的空乘，他們最后離婚了。照片里的這位女士就是他的第二任妻子Anna Torv，攝于1967年。她是悉尼先驅(qū)報的記者；他們在一起有四個孩子。

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Accumulation
[en]In addition to his media empire, Murdoch also owns stakes in the sporting industry. His estimated worth is close to $6.3 billion, making him the 117th wealthiest person in the world .

除了媒體帝國之外，默多克也在體育界有自己的股票。他的身價大概是63億美元，也就是全球的第117號富豪。

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Lights, Camera, Hollywood

In 1985 Murdoch expanded his presence in the U.S. by acquiring 20th Century Fox. He went on to purchase six television stations, which would ultimately form the foundation of Fox Broadcasting Co., the first network to be launched in the U.S. since the big three — CBS, NBC and ABC — began to appear in American living rooms in the 1950s. In order to conform to the legal requirement that U.S. television stations be owned only by American citizens, Murdoch obtained U.S. citizenship in 1985.
在1985年默多克根據(jù)他自己的預(yù)計收購了美國的21世紀(jì)福克斯電視臺。他繼續(xù)收購了6個電視臺，最終幫助他構(gòu)建了繼CBS，NBC和ABC之后第四個出現(xiàn)在1950年美國千家萬戶的電視臺。為了符合美國法律上要求的美國電視臺的擁有人必須是美國人的要求，默多克在1985年加入了美國國籍。

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Headquarters

Murdoch, frustrated by Australian regulations that he believed placed too many limits on News Corp., moved the company's headquarters to New York City in 2004.
默多克在2004年把自己的新聞集團(tuán)總部遷到了美國的紐約，主要原因是默多克認(rèn)為澳大利亞對于媒體的限制過多。

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Strategy Is a Strength

In 2007 Murdoch made an unsolicited $5 billion offer to buy Dow Jones, publisher of the Wall Street Journal. The offer unleashed a debate in the U.S., with media watchers worrying that the Australian tycoon would impose his political views and sensationalist tactics on one of the most respected brands in American journalism. Initially, the Bancroft family, which held controlling interest in Dow Jones, declined, saying it opposed Murdoch's management methods. But he did not give up, and ultimately completed the deal.
2007年默多克拋出了50億美元的繡球希望收購華爾街日報。這次出價在美國引起了熱議，有人擔(dān)心如果這位澳大利亞大亨收購了在當(dāng)時最受尊敬的品牌之一，他很可能會把他的政治觀點(diǎn)和偏向于敏感和偏激的媒體策略強(qiáng)加給美國人。一開始掌控道瓊斯的Bancroft家族拒絕了默多克，理由是不喜歡他的管理方式。但是默多克卻沒有放棄，最終還是完成了這筆交易。

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Helm of the WSJ

Shortly after the completion of the deal to acquire Dow Jones, Murdoch spoke to Wall Street Journal staff members in their newsroom in December 2007. Pictured to the left is Les Hinton, who would later resign as publisher of the Wall Street Journal when the 2011 News of the World phone-hacking scandal spread.
當(dāng)他成功收購了道瓊斯之后，他在2007年的12月在新聞房里對華爾街的所有員工進(jìn)行了講話。在照片的左邊是Les Hinton，他在今年的世界新聞報竊聽丑聞中辭職。

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New Partnership

Shortly after Murdoch's second divorce, in 1999, the tycoon, then 68, married Wendi Deng, a 30-year-old Yale School of Management graduate and recently appointed vice president of Star TV, an Asian television service owned by News Corp.
在默多克第二次離婚不久，這位1999年已經(jīng)有68歲的大亨娶了只有30歲的耶魯大學(xué)管理學(xué)碩士鄧文迪，并且任命她為新聞集團(tuán)旗下亞洲的電視臺星空衛(wèi)視的副總裁。

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Heir Apparent

Murdoch's oldest son, Lachlan, was widely thought to be the inheritor of the empire until Lachlan's resignation from his executive posts with News Corp. in 2005. That left Murdoch's son James, pictured above, to be the next in line to helm the company.
默多克的長子Lachlan被廣泛認(rèn)為是最有可能繼承默多克新聞事業(yè)的人，但是在2005年由于Lacnhlan辭去了新聞集團(tuán)執(zhí)行官的職位。這就讓默多克的2子詹姆斯默多克成為了掌管默多克集團(tuán)的候選人。

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Scandal

In 2011 the News of the World came under fire for allegations of phone hacking and police bribery. Rebekah Brooks, considered to be Murdoch's most loyal lieutenant and editor of the News of the World, was arrested on July 17, 2011, in connection with the police investigations.
2011年默多克的世界新聞報被指控使用竊聽手段獲得新聞和賄賂警察。在警察調(diào)查下，默多克最為忠實(shí)的左膀右臂Rebekah Brooks被警方于2011年7月17日逮捕，那時Brooks還是世界新聞報的主編。

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Level of Scrutiny

Murdoch and his son James appear at a British parliamentary hearing on July 19, 2011, to answer questions related to allegations that News of the World employees engaged in phone hacking.
上圖則是2011年7月19日默多克和他的次子詹姆斯默多克在英國國會聽證會當(dāng)中回答有關(guān)于世界新聞報被指控的竊聽丑聞的相關(guān)問題。

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