News Corporation

Rupert Murdoch turned one Adelaide newspaper into a group holding British and American papers, Fox, HarperCollins and Sky, then split it in 2013 into News Corp and 21st Century Fox, most of which Disney bought in 2019 for about $71 billion. Investors study it for two mechanics: cash from mature newspapers funded entry into television, and a dual-class structure kept family voting control on a much smaller economic stake. The literature divides into access-driven biography, investigative reporting on the company's methods, and the phone-hacking books that followed the closure of the News of the World in 2011. Michael Wolff wrote from inside the family, Neil Chenoweth and Bruce Page wrote against it, and Watson and Hickman documented the scandal that forced Murdoch to drop his bid for the rest of BSkyB.

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