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how a 22-year-old 'zealous Laborite' turned into a tabloid tsar

  • Written by: Sally Young, Professor of Political Science, The University of Melbourne
how a 22-year-old 'zealous Laborite' turned into a tabloid tsarThe successor: Rupert Murdoch, on right, with his parents Sir Keith and Elisabeth Murdoch around 1950.New South Publishing

In September 1953, Rupert Murdoch arrived in sleepy Adelaide to take up his inheritance of News Limited. He was only 22 and had little experience of working at a newspaper, let alone running one, but his family had inherited a...

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