How Rupert Murdoch remade the world

Today, Explained

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Daily News, Politics, News

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🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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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. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	A lot happened this month.
0:02.0	Do you remember?
0:04.0	Charlie Kirk, Jimmy Kimmel, James Comey,
0:07.0	easy to miss a resolution in the epic legal fight between the Murdox.
0:11.0	But their family drama matters because we've got a Fox News Secretary of Defense,
0:16.0	Fox News Secretary of Transportation, Fox News Secretary of Janine Piro, our Fox News presidency is the
0:23.2	crowning achievement of 94-year-old media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
0:28.4	In Australia, if you say Rupert, if you mention the name Rupert, people know who you're
0:33.0	talking about.
0:33.6	He has been one of the most important kind of media owners, not only for what he owns,
0:40.0	but also for the way he's used it. He has had this fascinating, but for many people, poisonous
0:46.9	impact on political discourse, on politics more generally. How Rupert Murdoch remade the world on Today Explain.
0:59.7	Support of the show and it comes from The Guardian.
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