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From the “Wall Street Journal” to HarperCollins, the Australian has built a media empire. David Colon retraces the itinerary of this extraordinary entrepreneur.
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IHe is the most influential media mogul on the planet. “The most dangerous”, according to US President Joe Biden. “An arrogant cancer for our democracy”, according to former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Michael Rudd. Rupert Murdoch, whose life inspired the screenwriter of the brilliant series Successionis, whatever one may think, an exceptional entrepreneur who managed to build an empire, NewsCorp, from a small Australian local newspaper, theAdelaide News. A group that was split in two, the Australian reselling most of the assets of 21st Century Fox to Disney in 2019 for 71 billion dollars. In a captivating and very well documented book, Rupert Murdoch, the media emperor who manipulates the world (ed. Tallandier), David Colon, professor of the history of…
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