News Corp (NASDAQ: NWSA) is a publicly listed company headquartered in New York, New York, United States that owns 6 consumer brands across 2 categories, and has 2 recorded transactions.[1][2]
News Corp holds the Murdoch family's newspaper and book publishing interests, separated in 2013 from the television and film business after the British phone hacking scandal. It owns titles that shape political coverage in three countries.
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Read from News Corp's latest annual filing[1]. Each line gives the sentence the filing uses, copied word for word.
The Company's operations are organized into five reportable segments: (i) Dow Jones; (ii) Digital Real Estate Services; (iii) Book Publishing; (iv) News Media; and (v) Other, which includes the Company's general corporate overhead expenses, strategy costs and costs related to the U.K. Newspaper Matters (as defined in Note 16 Commitments and Contingencies in the accompanying Consolidated Financial Statements).
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Headline figures from News Corp's annual reports filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, in USD as reported, fiscal years ending 2021–2026. Revenue moved from $9.36bn to $9.03bn, an average of -0.7% a year (calculated).
| Fiscal year ended | Revenue | Operating income | Operating margin | Net income | Total assets | Long-term debt | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $9.03bn | — | — | $573m | $15.5bn | $1.99bn | 10-K | |
| $8.45bn | — | — | $1.18bn | $15.5bn | $1.94bn | 10-K | |
| $8.25bn | — | — | $266m | $16.7bn | $2.09bn | 10-K | |
| $8.01bn | — | — | $149m | $16.9bn | $2.94bn | 10-K | |
| $10.4bn | — | — | $623m | $17.2bn | $2.78bn | 10-K | |
| $9.36bn | — | — | $330m | $16.8bn | $2.29bn | 10-K |
Source: SEC XBRL company facts. A dash means the company did not report that line in a form we could read. Figures for a year can be restated in a later filing; the latest filing's number is shown.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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News Corporation acquired Dow Jones for about $5.6 billion, taking The Wall Street Journal after a contested approach to the Bancroft family that had controlled it for a century. The deal included commitments intended to protect the paper's editorial independence.
News International, the British arm of Rupert Murdoch's group and now News UK, bought The Times and The Sunday Times from the Thomson Organisation after a year in which industrial disputes had suspended publication. Newspaper transfers needed the Secretary of State for Trade's consent under the Fair Trading Act 1973, and the consent came with binding conditions that still shape how the two titles are run.
| Case | Regulator | Decision | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Transfer of The Times and The Sunday Times to News International (Fair Trading Act 1973, s.58) | uk secretary of state | cleared with remedies | 27 January 1981 |
| Variation of the 1981 conditions relating to The Times and The Sunday Times | uk secretary of state | remedies varied | 23 July 2019 |
The documents behind the figures on this page, as listed in the SEC's EDGAR index. Each links to the filing itself.
News Corp owns 6 consumer brands tracked here, including The Wall Street Journal, The Times, HarperCollins, Dow Jones, realtor.com and The Sun.
Yes. News Corp is headquartered in New York, New York, United States and was founded in 2013.
News Corp is a publicly listed company owned by its shareholders; it trades as NWSA on the NASDAQ.
The most recent completed acquisition recorded here is Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal on 13 December 2007.
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
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