"A super-savvy digital innovator and media icon, Mr. Murdoch has so many valuable lessons and insights for our global Connect audience." Since 1954, Murdoch has overseen the expansion and development of News Corp. into the most international of media businesses. In the 1980s, News Corp. purchased The Times and Sunday Times and HarperCollins Publishers, one of the world's largest and most digitally advanced English language book publishers. In 2007, News Corp. acquired Dow Jones & Company, including The Wall Street Journal. News Corp. purchased Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. in 1985.