Rupert Murdoch

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, 79, took over the Wall Street Journal in 2007, and that year TIME talked to the "restless septuagenarian moving headlong into the digital age" — a septuagenarian who had spent much of his life buying up newspapers and other properties. The powerful chairman and CEO of the many-tentacled News Corp. said, "I've been around 50 years. When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies — and I'm proud of the ones I've got." The man means business.

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