Murdoch vs Lisin
News Corp and NLMK.
The differences
- Forbes puts Vladimir Lisin about $0.4B ahead of Rupert Murdoch.Forbes figures from 9 Oct 2026 and 9 Oct 2026.
- Rupert Murdoch: inherited and grew it. Vladimir Lisin: built it up.
- Rupert Murdoch is about 25 years older than Vladimir Lisin.
- Rupert Murdoch is from United States; Vladimir Lisin is from Russia.
Put someone else on either side
Side by side
Murdoch
LisinThe money
- Net worth, Forbes
- $25.1BForbes, 9 Oct 2026
- $25.5BForbes, 9 Oct 2026
- Net worth, Bloomberg
- $20.7BBloomberg, 10 Oct 2026
- $21.2BBloomberg, 15 Oct 2026
- Forbes rank
- No. 98Real-Time list, 9 Oct 2026
- No. 94Real-Time list, 9 Oct 2026
- Billionaire since
- Not stated
- Not stated
Where it came from
- How it started
- Inherited and grew itInherited his father's interests in the Adelaide newspaper The News in 1952 and expanded News Limited into a global media business
- Built it upBecame NLMK chairman in 1998 and, using profits from metals trading, acquired about 90% of the company by 2004
- Main source
- Family stakes in News Corp and Fox Corporation, held largely through LGC Holdco, plus cashBloomberg also counts real estate at purchase prices
- NLMK stockBloomberg: most of his fortune is his 79.3% NLMK stake; he also owns First Port and the baby-food maker Progress
- Companies
- News Corp, Fox CorporationNews Corp: Chairman emeritus; Fox Corporation: Chairman emeritus
- NLMKNLMK: Chairman of the board
- Biggest stake
- News CorpStake not stated
- NLMK79.3% owned
The person
- Born
- 11 Mar 1931Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- 6 May 1956Ivanovo, Russia
- Country
- United StatesLives in New York, New York, United States
- RussiaLives in Moscow, Russia
- Education
- Bachelor's degreeMA, Worcester College, University of Oxford (1953)
- Graduate degreeDoctorate, Russian Academy of Economics; degree from the Siberian Metallurgical Institute (1979)
- Parents
- Father Sir Keith Murdoch was a journalist and newspaper publisher; mother Elisabeth Murdoch was a philanthropist
- Not stated
What they give
- Giving Pledge
- Not a signer
- Not a signer
- Foundation
- Not stated
- Not stated
- Lifetime giving
- Not stated
- Not stated
Role and record
- Role now
- RetiredChairman emeritus of News Corp and Fox Corporation
- Chair of the boardChairman of NLMK's board
- Successor
- His son Lachlan Murdoch, chair of News Corp and executive chair and CEO of Fox Corporation
- Not stated
- Public office
- None found
- None found
- Legal record
- 2024: Nevada probate commissioner (Second Judicial District Court)A probate commissioner rejected his attempt to amend the irrevocable Murdoch family trust and concluded that he and Lachlan Murdoch had acted in bad faith; the trust litigation was resolved in 2025.
- None found
