Mr Murdoch is Executive Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Fox Corporation (FOX). Mr. Murdoch has spent the past two decades building, operating and investing in prominent television and publishing businesses. He currently serves as Executive Chair of NOVA Entertainment, an Australian media company. Mr. Murdoch previously served as Non-Executive Chair of Ten Network Holdings.
Mr. Murdoch served since 1996 on the Board of Directors of News Corporation, which separated into two publicly traded companies, News Corp and 21st Century Fox, in 2013. Mr. Murdoch was named Co-Chair of 21st Century Fox in 2014, and Executive Chair in 2015; he served in that role until the closing of the merger of 21st Century Fox and The Walt Disney Company in March 2019. From 1996 to 2005, Mr. Murdoch served in a number of senior executive roles at News Corporation. As Deputy Chief Operating Officer, he was directly responsible for the company's U.S. television stations group and publishing assets, serving as Chair of Fox Television Stations (FTS) and Publisher of the New York Post. At FTS, he oversaw the company's 35 owned-and-operated television stations, where he raised the bar on local news coverage nationwide, increasing the total number of local news hours across the group to more than 850 per week. At the New York Post, he overhauled the tabloid and grew its circulation by more than 40 percent. Mr. Murdoch also oversaw HarperCollins Publishers and News Corporation's lines of business in Australia, including REA Group, an online real estate business in Australia. He led the company's purchase of a controlling stake in REA, which began with an original cash investment of approximately $1 million and resulted in a corporate asset that is currently valued in excess of $10 billion. In 2005, Mr. Murdoch founded Illyria Pty, a private investment company. In 2009, Illyria acquired 50 percent of DMG Radio, a network of radio stations, which later was renamed NOVA Entertainment.
