Who Owns The Press?

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Rupert Murdoch- News corporation: The sun, Times, The Sunday Times and The Sun on Sunday.

Background:
The original News Corporation or News Corp. was an American multinational mass media corporation headquartered in New York City. News Corp was created in 1979 by Rupert Murdoch as a holding company for News Limited On 28 June 2012, after concerns from shareholders in response to its recent scandals and to "unlock even greater long-term shareholder value", founder Rupert Murdoch announced that News Corporation's assets would be split into two publicly traded companies, one oriented towards media, and the other towards publishing.
Keith Rupert Murdoch was born 11 March 1931 and is an Australian-born American media mogul. His father, Sir Keith Murdoch, had been a reporter, editor, and senior executive of the Herald and Weekly Times newspaper publishing company, covering all Australian states except New South Wales. After his father's death in 1952, Murdoch declined to join his late father's registered public company and created his own private company, News Limited.
Political stance:
In Britain, in the 1980s, Murdoch formed a close alliance with Conservative prime minister Margret Thatcher, and The Sun credited itself with helping her successor John Major to win an unexpected election victory in the 1992 general election, which had been expected to end in a hung parliament or a narrow win for Neil Kinnock's Labour.[In the general elections of 1997, 2001 and 2005, Murdoch's papers were either neutral or supported Labour under Tony Blair.
Other companies they're involved with:
21st century fox.
Controversy:
Rupert Murdoch got his involved in a number of scandals the big one being the mobile phone tabbing of Celebrities. Employees of the newspaper were accused of engaging in phone hacking, police bribery, and exercising improper influence in the pursuit of stories. Whilst investigations conducted from 2005 to 2007 appeared to show that the paper's phone hacking activities were limited to celebrities, politicians, and members of the British Royal Family.

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