Rupert Murdoch is a newspaper owner.
The News International phone-hacking scandal is a controversy involving the defunct News of the World and other British newspapers published by News International , a subsidiary of News Corporation . Keith Rupert Murdoch [ ˈmɜrdɒk ] , AC , KCSG ( born 11 March 1931 ) 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 . In the 1950s and 1960s , Murdoch acquired a number of newspapers in Australia and New Zealand , before expanding into the United Kingdom in 1969 , taking over the News of the World , followed closely by The Sun .