ABSTRACT
In 2005, reports first emerged of phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch’s media business, News Corporation. It was not until mid-2011, following reports of hacking into the phone of a murdered teenager in Britain that the full extent of Murdoch’s troubles began with the launch of a British public inquiry led by Lord Leveson. Up until then, it represented an extraordinary success story about one entrepreneur’s vision of becoming a global media force. By 2000 he owned over 800 companies in more than 50 countries with a reported net worth of over US$5 billion, beginning with a small daily in Adelaide, which he took over from his father in 1952 in the south of Australia. However, the phone hacking troubles were the least of the Murdoch-owned News Corporation’s worries.
