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WALTER MARSH Young Rupert: The making of the Murdoch empire. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck

WALTER MARSH Young Rupert: The making of the Murdoch empire. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck

by NRB | 1 Aug 2023 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

Walter Marsh charts the origins of Murdoch’s media playbook and political connections in 1950s Adelaide. Walter Marsh is a journalist based in Adelaide, the city where Rupert Murdoch’s empire began when he took control of Adelaide’s afternoon daily paper The...
             

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