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]
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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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 |
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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.
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