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How Rupert Murdoch remade the world - Today, Explained

How Rupert Murdoch remade the world - Today, Explained

Update: 2025-09-29
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Murdoch started his media empire in Australia, sharpened his playbook in the UK, and became one of the most powerful people in the world once he came to the United States.


This episode was produced by Peter Balonon-Rosen with help from Denise Guerra, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Adriene Lilly, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.


Rupert Murdoch with some of his newspapers and magazines, at the offices of the New York Post in 1985. Photo by Roger Ressmeyer/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images.


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How Rupert Murdoch remade the world - Today, Explained

How Rupert Murdoch remade the world - Today, Explained