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News Corp is a multinational media and information services conglomerate, originally founded in Australia in 1980, restructured and reincorporated in 2013, with headquarters in New York City. Led by the Murdoch family, it operates core businesses including global news publishing, book publishing, digital real estate services, and AI-powered data solutions, having transitioned from a traditional media company to a diversified information services provider by 2026.

Key moments

  • 1920s–1950sOrigins in Australian newspaper holdings under Keith Murdoch
  • 1980Formally established as News Corporation in Australia
  • 2004Reincorporated in Delaware, United States
  • June 28, 2013Split into two entities: new News Corp (publishing, news, digital real estate) and 21st Century Fox (entertainment/broadcast assets)
  • 201921st Century Fox acquired by The Walt Disney Company
  • 2025Secured multi-year content licensing deals with OpenAI and Meta for AI model training
  • 2026Digital revenue accounts for over 60% of total global revenue

News Corp operates across three core competitive domains with distinct rivals:

  1. News & Publishing Sector: Competes directly with legacy and digital-first news providers including The New York Times Company, Axel Springer SE, Bloomberg L.P., and Gannett Co., Inc. Its premium titles like The Wall Street Journal and The Times face competition from niche subscription news platforms and big tech news aggregators.
  2. Digital Real Estate: In the U.S. market, its Realtor.com platform competes with Zillow Group and Redfin. In Australia, its majority stake in REA Group faces local competitive pressure from domain.com.au.
  3. Content & Media Licensing: Competes with large media conglomerates such as Disney Entertainment, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Paramount Global for content distribution and advertising spend, while also facing competition from tech platforms like Google and Meta for news content licensing and digital ad revenue.
  • Direct news publishing rivals: The New York Times, Axel Springer, Gannett
  • Digital real estate competitors: Zillow, Redfin, domain.com.au
  • Media content rivals: Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount Global
  • Tech platform competitors: Google, Meta for ad and content licensing revenue

News Corp is a well-established diversified media and information conglomerate with a global footprint built over decades of industry consolidation and strategic restructuring. Its portfolio of iconic media and digital assets gives it significant brand recognition across multiple high-stakes markets, from financial news publishing to digital real estate services. Under the continuous leadership of the Murdoch family, the brand has navigated major industry shifts, moving from traditional print-centric media to a diversified information services provider, maintaining relevance amid disruption caused by big tech platforms and changing consumer media habits.

The brand leverages its legacy of trusted journalism to anchor its premium offerings, while expanding into high-growth digital segments like AI-powered data solutions and digital real estate. This dual identity as both a legacy media leader and a growing digital information player gives it unique positioning, though it also faces ongoing competitive pressure from both traditional rivals and large technology companies across its core business lines. Its 2013 restructuring allowed it to refocus operations on higher-margin information services, creating a clearer brand identity focused on differentiated B2C and B2B offerings.

News Corp's brand strength is rooted in the reputation of its individual titles, such as The Wall Street Journal and The Times, which carry significant authority in global news and business circles. This reputation translates into spillover benefits across its other business units, supporting customer retention and partnerships in its digital real estate and data segments. However, the brand also faces occasional scrutiny tied to its ownership structure and editorial stance, which can create reputational challenges in some markets.

Brand leadership

Score: 78/100

News Corp holds strong leadership positions in multiple core segments, including leading market share in U.S. national subscription news via The Wall Street Journal, and top-tier positions in U.S. and Australian digital real estate markets. Its long-tenured executive leadership provides consistent strategic direction, though it faces ongoing challenges to maintain leadership against growing competition from digital-native platforms and big tech news aggregators.

Stakeholder interaction

Score: 72/100

News Corp engages directly with millions of consumers across its news subscriptions, book publishing titles, and digital real estate platforms, with growing direct audience relationships through its shift to paid subscription models. It also interacts regularly with advertising partners, content licensees, and industry regulators across the markets it operates, balancing the needs of multiple stakeholder groups amid ongoing debates over news content licensing and media ownership.

Growth momentum

Score: 75/100

News Corp has shown positive momentum in recent years through its strategic shift from declining traditional print media to high-growth digital and AI-powered information services, with consistent growth in subscription revenue and digital real estate earnings. It has invested heavily in AI capabilities to enhance its content and data offerings, positioning it to capture future growth in information services, though growth rates lag behind faster purely digital-native competitors in some segments.

Organizational stability

Score: 80/100

As a large publicly traded conglomerate with a diversified portfolio of businesses across multiple geographies, News Corp benefits from stable cash flow from its established publishing and real estate segments. Its long-standing ownership structure provides long-term strategic stability, reducing pressure for short-term profit gains that can undermine long-term brand investment. It maintains solid credit ratings and financial flexibility to fund ongoing strategic investments.

Brand legacy age

Score: 85/100

News Corp's corporate roots stretch back to early 20th century media assets, with formal founding in 1980 and restructuring in 2013. Its flagship individual assets, such as The Wall Street Journal, date back more than 130 years, giving the overall conglomerate a long legacy of media operation that builds deep consumer trust and recognition. The extended history of the brand and its core assets contributes significantly to its overall brand equity.

Industry influence profile

Score: 82/100

News Corp is one of the most high-profile and influential media conglomerates in the world, with its editorial coverage and business decisions widely watched across the global media and political landscape. It has shaped industry trends in newspaper publishing, paid subscription models, and news content licensing, and plays a central role in ongoing policy debates around media ownership and digital content rights. Its influence extends beyond its direct revenue footprint into broader media and public discourse.

Global market penetration

Score: 70/100

News Corp operates across North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia, with a significant presence in major English-language media markets. While it has a global footprint, its revenue is heavily concentrated in the U.S. and Australia, with limited penetration into large emerging markets like India and Latin America compared to some larger global media conglomerates. Its core news brands have global recognition, even as local operational reach is limited to a smaller set of key markets.

AI-based analysis can support reasoning around the drivers of News Corp's brand value, helping identify core strengths and growth gaps across its business segments. Any brand value estimates generated through this approach are illustrative only, and do not replace rigorous, audited brand valuation work. For an official, audited brand value assessment for News Corp, contact World Brand Lab.

The second and current incarnation of News Corporation, doing business as News Corp,[3] is an American mass media and publishing company headquartered at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The company was formed on June 28, 2013, as a spin-off of the first News Corporation, whose legal successor was 21st Century Fox, which held its media and entertainment assets. Operating across digital real estate information, news media, book publishing, and cable television, News Corp's notable assets include: Dow Jones & Company, which is the publisher of The Wall Street Journal; News UK, publisher of The Sun and The Times; News Corp Australia; REA Group, operator of realestate.com.au and realtor.com; and book publisher HarperCollins.

After News Corp announced its plan to split publicly on June 28, 2012, they had planned for it to be a necessary change in order to prioritize the separate needs of each company.[4] Since they were going to be separate companies, each having its own team, it was supposed to make both companies more efficient relative to market changes. When News Corp officially split with Fox News on June 28, 2013, News Corp took a modified approach by changing the way they reported news and ads, while including other broader topics, which helped to increase viewers. This is a prime example of how the separation of companies led to immediate benefits without any significant negative impacts on either News Corp or Fox News.[5]

Following the split, News Corp started 2013 with $2.6 billion, while being debt-free, which gave it an edge over its media competition to implement its plans and strategies to continue developing.[6] After becoming an individual company, there were no longer concerns about maintaining profits or equal market strategies between News Corp and Fox News. The separation gave both companies benefits, increasing productivity, strategy, and company development and growth, while having complete economic and decision-making freedom as a result of this separation.[7]

News Corp and 21st Century Fox are two companies that succeeded the original News Corp., which included Fox Entertainment Group and other broadcasting and media properties.[8] The spin-out was structured so that 21st Century Fox was the legal continuation of the original News Corporation, with the new News Corp being a new company formed by a stock split. Since March 2019, Fox Corporation, which holds 21st Century Fox's national broadcasting, news and sports assets, is also under the Murdoch family's control.[9][10] In November 2023, Rupert Murdoch stepped down as News Corp's chairman, becoming "chairman emeritus".[11][12]

History

Formation

News Corporation, referred to as "News Corp," was started in 1980 in Australia. It was founded by Rupert Murdoch, who led the company in its publishing, in both news and books, as well as television. These were all published in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, allowing the new and growing company to gain popularity worldwide.[8]

Starting in 1981, News Corp started developing its television industry, which became its primary goal through the 1990s. In 1996, News Corp began premiering Fox News, which significantly gained popularity.[10] Following the success of News Corp's Fox News, it acquired the publisher of the Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones & Company. This was another success for News Corp since it gave it important names throughout writing, publishing, and television.

As News Corp continued to expand its ownership in June 2010, by putting out a bid for British Sky Broadcasting, it was unable to go through with the acquisition of the television and telephone company. When fact-checked rumors spread about faults in security, regarding a British source, News of the World, being criminally hacked, losing privacy in phone records, it caused News Corp to remove its offer one year later, in July 2011.

On June 28, 2012, Rupert Murdoch announced that News Corporation's publishing operations would be spun off to form a new, publicly traded company.[13][14] Murdoch stated that performing this split would "unlock the true value of both companies and their distinct assets, enabling investors to benefit from the separate strategic opportunities resulting from more focused management of each division". The move also came in the wake of a series of scandals that had damaged the reputation of multiple News Corporation-owned properties.[13]

On June 28, 2012, News Corp decided to divide both its publishing and media into two different public companies.[15] This change was made to give more focus to each department, while it continued to expand and gain new companies, publishers, and producers. Following the split, the publishing company produced mainstream newspapers, like The Wall Street Journal, as well as publishing books. The media company focused on broadcasting, cable networks in television, producing films, and its pay-tv. Following the split of the company, News Corp’s owner continued on with both companies, taking the positions of chairman of the publishing and media entertainment company, while giving up his long-term position as CEO.[16]

Dividing the company into two parts influenced both sections to put extra focus into their own development, without needing to balance the publication and entertainment companies together. In addition to having more focus on each department and company, News Corp brought in extra help with new management teams, which helped both companies stabilize following the split. News Corp also implemented new and separate boards of directors for each company. After this decision, both teams created plans to ensure the split would go smoothly, without causing unnecessary conflict in either department.[17]

Robert Thomson, then editor of The Wall Street Journal, was announced as the initial chief operating officer for the company. While Murdoch did not serve as CEO, he remained chairman and a shareholder of the new News Corp.[13][18] Thomson promised that the new company would "cultivate a start-up sensibility even though we already work for the world's most established and prestigious diversified media and information services company" and would emphasize building new business models around its properties and content. The logo of the new News Corporation was unveiled at an investor presentation on May 28, 2013; the handwritten logo uses script based on Murdoch's own handwriting.[19] News Corp's board approved the split on May 24, 2013, while shareholders approved the split on June 11;[20][21][22]

Preliminary trading on the Australian Securities Exchange of the new News Corp's class B stock began on June 19, 2013, at around $15 per share; a value slightly lower than expected by some analysts. The shares fell in price by 3% to $14.55 per share, valuing the new company at around $7.9 billion US.[23][24] The corporate split was finalized on June 28, 2013; during the stock splitting process, one share of the new News Corp was given to shareholders for every four

shares they owned in the former News Corp.[24]

The current News Corp began trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the symbol "NWS" on July 1, 2013; at the same time, the former News Corporation (which encompassed purely of media properties, such as Fox Entertainment Group and 20th Century Fox) was renamed 21st Century Fox.[25][26]

After the split

On September 4, 2013, News Corp announced that it would sell the Dow Jones Local Media Group, a group of 33 local newspapers, to Newcastle Investment Corp., an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group, for $87 million. The newspapers will be operated by GateHouse Media, a newspaper group owned by Fortress. Robert Thomson indicated that the newspapers "were not strategically consistent with the emerging portfolio" of the company.[27] GateHouse then filed for prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy on September 27, 2013, to restructure its debt obligations to accommodate the acquisition.[28] Then GateHouse emerged from bankruptcy on November 26, 2013.[29]

On December 20, 2013, News Corp announced its acquisition of Dublin, Ireland-based social news agency Storyful,[30] a startup founded by journalist Mark Little.[31] At the time, Storyful was described as "scour[ing] social-media services like Twitter and Instagram" to discover user-generated content "breaking news and viral online content" and after sourcing, to then verify, acquire, and distribute it.[30][31] Storyful had, for instance, reported 2013 results of 750m views of user-generated videos by its partners.[31] The cost of the Storyful acquisition was €18 million (£15m, US$25m),[31][30] and marked News Corp's first acquisition since the split.[30] News Corp CEO at the time, Robert Thomson, stated that the service had "become the village square for valuable video, using journalistic sensibility, integrity and creativity", and that with the acquisition, News Corp would "define the opportunities that the digital landscape presents, rather than simply adapt to them".[31]

On May 2, 2014, News Corp acquired romance novel publisher Harlequin Enterprises from Torstar for $415 million.[32] The deal closed on August 1; it is now operated as a subsidiary of News Corp's HarperCollins.[33]

On September 30, 2014, News Corp announced its acquisition of Move, Inc., a real estate listings company and owner of Realtor.com, a 20% stake of which was, at the time, owned by REA Group, a publicly traded subsidiary of News Corp Australia.[34]

News Corp also began making investments in India in late 2014, such as a $30 million investment in real estate site ProTiger in November,[35] the December 2014 purchase of BigDecisions.com, a financial planning website,[36] and the acquisition of Indian media firm VCCircle in March 2015.[37]

In October 2015, News Corp sold its digital education brand Amplify to a management team supported by a group of private investors for an undisclosed sum.[38] In June 2016, News Corp acquired Wireless Group (formerly UTV Media), a British radio broadcaster, for $296 million[39][40]

In January 2020, News Corp sold Unruly, an outstream video ad marketplace, in exchange of 6.91% of Tremor Video stock.[41] On July 31, 2020, James Murdoch resigned from the News Corp board of directors, "due to disagreements over certain editorial content published by the Company's news outlets and certain other strategic decisions."[42]

On February 4, 2022, News Corp suffered a cyberattack from hackers believed to be linked to China.[43]

On October 14, 2022, it was announced that, under the instruction of Rupert Murdoch, a special committee had been established to explore a potential merger of Fox and News Corp, bringing the two companies back together since the former 21st Century Fox was spun-off from News Corp in 2013.[44] On January 24, 2023, the proposed merger was abandoned by Murdoch.[45]

In February 2023, the company announced that it would be cutting 5% of its workforce across its various divisions.[46]

In September 2023, News Corp reported that Rupert Murdoch would retire from the board of News Corporation. He would also retire from the board of Fox Corporation and his son Lachlan Murdoch would replace him on both boards. The retirement would take effect in November 2023.[11][47]

An annual meeting of shareholders was held by webcast on 20 November 2024, to determine whether the "dual-class" share structure (voting and non-voting) would be abolished, after Starboard Value, which has bought up a large share of News Corp over the previous year, had proposed a one-share-one-vote system. News Corp had stated that if the proposal is accepted, the new system of shares could only be introduced if agreement between voting and non-voting shareholders was reached.[48] This relates to the ongoing court case in Nevada pitting Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch against the other three siblings, who all have voting shares.[49] The proposal was not accepted at the meeting.

In June 2025, the company announced it had extended the contract of its chief executive Robert Thomson to June 2030.[50]

Outcome

Although News Corp and 21st Century Fox were stable and had gained mainstream popularity, this ended abruptly after Murdoch's announcement in 2013. As Murdoch held positions of chairman at both News Corp and 21st Century Fox, following the split, News Corp itself had a strong focus on publishing journals, articles, and books. 21st Century Fox focused on broadcasts, television, and film production. Although it appears as an equal split, on the first day of trading, Fox went up over 2% while News Corp plummeted 5%.[51] This difference in stocks represents how people shifted toward digital news and entertainment, and had left paper-copies in the past.

By becoming separate companies, the management teams gain control over specific needs and goals. This is significant because it allows for more strategic moves within a single company, leading to improved efficiency and customized needs.[52] Although splitting the companies has not solved the main issue of improving each company, both companies were given an opportunity to develop and grow on their own. Following the British news breach of security, the amount of backlash influenced the need to part ways.[53]

After News Corp split with 21st Century Fox, News Corp lost most of its power and stopped generating as much wealth. In the U.K., specifically the department that Rebekah Brooks runs, had a decrease in revenue of 10% in 2023 alone.[54] She also had been trying to get a top position within News Corp. This is a prime example of how management is a necessity, in achieving growth and stability, as a company, rather than individuals like Brooks who put themselves before the company.[55] Following News Corp's declining trend in success, management is a key component in keeping a company stable.

A key issue causing revenue to fall at News Corp is its outdated advertisement strategies. The majority of its advertisements are on paper, which have gained less attention and action, causing them to lose money.[56] Digital advertising was one of its strategies to stabilize revenue and return it to quarterly standards. Digital marketing did help to increase revenue, but only accounted for 37% of all marketing done by News Corp.[57]

News Corp had internal issues, and splitting apart was one way of attempting to restore stability. As a result of this decision, more conflict arose since it did not put an end to it. News Corp also ended up in a worse position than they had previously been in, before cutting ties with 21st Century Fox.[58]

Leadership and Management

News Corp’s governmental structure focuses on board supervision, helping with large media sources and publishing. After News Corp’s split, in 2013, Murdoch used his influence to create his personal strategic plans to guide News Corp into better economic levels. Murdoch helped by spreading assets of News Corp, and other digital sources.[59]

Another position in leadership is CEO Robert J. Thomson, who has been CEO since January 2013.[60] He is still set to fill the position until his contract expires in June 2030. Thomson has modernized News Corp by switching from paper to digital. Digital revenues went from 20% of total revenue in 2014, to 50% in 2024.[61]

Together, the executive leadership team and board form a governance framework that balances operational leadership with independent oversight. This structure supports strategic groupwork and accountability, allowing News Corp to adapt in a quick changing media landscape while holding up commitments to shareholders and stakeholders.[62]

Succession

In September 2024, Rupert Murdoch applied to a Nevada probate court to remove voting rights from his children other than Lachlan, as set out in the irrevocable family trust. The other siblings, Prudence MacLeod, Elisabeth Murdoch, and James Murdoch, are more moderate politically than their father or brother, and Rupert was keen to keep the conservative political leanings in his media outlets.[49] On December 9, 2024, The New York Times reported that the court had ruled against Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch, who, the probate commissioner wrote, had acted in bad faith when trying to change the trust.[63][64]

Assets

The company consists of the former News Corporation's newspaper and book publishing assets, together with the digital real-estate advertising properties that are now its largest business.[23][65]

See also

  • Succession of Rupert Murdoch, a 2024 court case

External links

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