Mr. Keith R. Murdoch is a Chairman at FOX Business Network, a Chairman at FOX News Network LLC, an Executive Co-Chairman at News Corp., a Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Ruby NewCo LLC, an Executive Co-Chairman at Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. and a Chairman at Sky Global Holdings, Inc.

He is on the Board of Directors at STAR Group Ltd. and The Partnership for New York City. Mr. Murdoch was previously employed as an Executive Chairman by News Corp. Australia Pty Ltd., a Chairman by The DIRECTV Group, Inc., a Chairman & Chief Executive Officer by Fox Entertainment Group, Inc., and a Chairman by Dow Jones & Co., Inc.

He also served on the board at Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc., British Sky Broadcasting Group Plc, News Corp. UK & Ireland Ltd. and The Associated Press, Inc.

He received his undergraduate degree from Worcester College and a graduate degree from Worcester College.

Sir Keith Arthur Murdoch (12 August 1885 – 4 October 1952) was an Australian journalist and the father of Rupert Murdoch, the CEO and Chairman of News Corp.

Life and career
Murdoch was born in Melbourne in 1885, the son of Annie (née Brown) and the Rev. Patrick John Murdoch, who had married in 1882 and migrated from Cruden, Scotland to Victoria, Australia with Patrick's family in 1884. His paternal grandfather was a minister with the Free Church of Scotland, and his maternal grandfather was a Presbyterian minister. The family moved from West Melbourne to the affluent suburb of Camberwell in 1887. Keith was educated at his uncle Walter's short-lived school, then at Camberwell Grammar School, where he became dux in 1903, despite extreme shyness and stammering. He decided not to go straight to university but to try a career in journalism, so family friend David Syme of The Age agreed to employ him as district correspondent for nearby Malvern. Over the next four years, working long hours, he managed to create a significant increase in The Age's local circulation, to earn promotion, and to save enough money for a ticket to England, where he hoped to gain further experience and find ways to master his stammer.

From 1908–9, in London, he took speech therapy, studied part-time at the London School of Economics, and tried to find employment as a journalist, with the help of recommendations from more family friends, including Australia's Prime Minister Alfred Deakin. The stammer reduced, but remained a problem, and shortly after it cost him a job with the Pall Mall Gazette in September 1909, Murdoch returned home to resume work for The Age, now as parliamentary reporter, in which capacity he strengthened the family's relationships with politicians such as Andrew Fisher, in some cases entertaining them at his aunt's country guest house.

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