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 1 recorded transaction.[1]
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.
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.