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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年出生在墨尔本,父亲老鲁伯特默多克为默多克取名基斯鲁伯特默多克,不仅如此,老默多克也是一个著名的记者随后成为一份报纸的执行官。在默多克22岁时,老默多克去世了,这迫使小默多克从正在留学的英国牛津大学回到澳大利亚来继承家业。从Aselaide起家,默多克在澳大利亚建立了一个报纸网络,包括像悉尼小报和每日镜报。图中就是这个年轻的企业家向照相机展示自己的报纸,摄于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世纪60年代末,默多克开始在英国收购报纸,第一个就是1968年的《世界新闻报》.之后的几年,他又收购了太阳报。这张照片里面,他正在一个会议里展示他为世界新闻报所制定的计划。

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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.
在英国,默多克也没有局限于小报。1981年,他从一个加拿大报业出版商汤姆逊手中收购了财务状况不佳的著名报纸,伦敦《泰晤士报》及其周日版《星期日泰晤士报》。在这张里面,默多克当年正在和出版联盟谈判。

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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.
默多克在美国的第一个产业从他在1973年收购了圣安东尼奥快讯开始,随后他又在1976年收购了纽约邮报。他收购这份著名的具有独立视角的报纸当时震惊了世界。这张里面,默多克正准备离开,之前他参加了一个和高级编辑们的会议,此时正是1978年的报业大罢工,这些员工在举行大游行之前刚刚和管理层达成了一个协议。

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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。第一个是和Patricia Booker,她是一个墨尔本航线上的空乘,他们最后离婚了。照片里的这位女士就是他的第二任妻子Anna Torv,摄于1967年。她是悉尼先驱报的记者;他们在一起有四个孩子。

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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 .

除了媒体帝国之外,默多克也在体育界有自己的股票。他的身价大概是63亿美元,也就是全球的第117号富豪。

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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年默多克根据他自己的预计收购了美国的21世纪福克斯电视台。他继续收购了6个电视台,最终帮助他构建了继CBS,NBC和ABC之后第四个出现在1950年美国千家万户的电视台。为了符合美国法律上要求的美国电视台的拥有人必须是美国人的要求,默多克在1985年加入了美国国籍。

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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年把自己的新闻集团总部迁到了美国的纽约,主要原因是默多克认为澳大利亚对于媒体的限制过多。

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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年默多克抛出了50亿美元的绣球希望收购华尔街日报。这次出价在美国引起了热议,有人担心如果这位澳大利亚大亨收购了在当时最受尊敬的品牌之一,他很可能会把他的政治观点和偏向于敏感和偏激的媒体策略强加给美国人。一开始掌控道琼斯的Bancroft家族拒绝了默多克,理由是不喜欢他的管理方式。但是默多克却没有放弃,最终还是完成了这笔交易。

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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.
当他成功收购了道琼斯之后,他在2007年的12月在新闻房里对华尔街的所有员工进行了讲话。在照片的左边是Les Hinton,他在今年的世界新闻报窃听丑闻中辞职。

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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.
在默多克第二次离婚不久,这位1999年已经有68岁的大亨娶了只有30岁的耶鲁大学管理学硕士邓文迪,并且任命她为新闻集团旗下亚洲的电视台星空卫视的副总裁。

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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.
默多克的长子Lachlan被广泛认为是最有可能继承默多克新闻事业的人,但是在2005年由于Lacnhlan辞去了新闻集团执行官的职位。这就让默多克的2子詹姆斯默多克成为了掌管默多克集团的候选人。

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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年默多克的世界新闻报被指控使用窃听手段获得新闻和贿赂警察。在警察调查下,默多克最为忠实的左膀右臂Rebekah Brooks被警方于2011年7月17日逮捕,那时Brooks还是世界新闻报的主编。

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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.
上图则是2011年7月19日默多克和他的次子詹姆斯默多克在英国国会听证会当中回答有关于世界新闻报被指控的窃听丑闻的相关问题。