'Chance to do it all over again,' Rupert Murdoch says of company's historic split NEWS Corporation chairman and chief executive Rupert Murdoch says the rebirth of the media company is a "chance to do it all over again." Mr Murdoch was speaking at an investor day in New York before a historic split of the company into two publicly traded entities, an entertainment company called 21st Century Fox and a publishing company that will retain the News Corp name, on June 28.