Words: Tom Ward
“I’m a bit optimistic. I’ve got about another 175,000 hours to go,” a then 70 year-old Rupert Murdoch opined at a media event in 2001. “Maybe I can spend 75,000 productively at work…I’ve got to see that each one of those hours is well spent.”
As the Financial Review points, out, the newspaper magnate’s figurings weren’t quite on the money. According to Murdoch’s own calculations, he should have been out of circulation for good sometime in February 2021. Instead, we’re poised on the precipice of his 90th birthday, on March 11th.
Still holding on to his role as executive chairman of News Corp and co-chairman of Fox Corporation, Murdoch is soon to become one of an elite and small club of nonagenarians still operating at the head of their games.
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