News Corp. has defeated a shareholder proposal to adopt a recapitalization plan to eliminate News Corp’s dual-class capital structure that includes regular shares and super-voting share, most of which are owned by the Murdoch family. At the annual meeting today, a majority of votes cast on the measure supported the company to leave the current share structure in place, against shareholder Starboard, which doesn’t believe control should passes from generation to generation, especially now as Rupert Murdoch ...

Lachlan Murdoch faced down a shareholder vote on Wednesday aimed at weakening the Murdoch family’s control over their media empire.The activist investor Starboard Value had challenged the ownership structure of News Corp, the parent company of dozens of news outlets globally including the Wall Street Journal and publisher HarperCollins in the US, and the Times and the Sun in the UK.At the company’s annual meeting, the company announced the proposal had been defeated.The Murdoch family controls 41% of compan ...

Table of Contents Title of each classTrading Symbol(s)Name of each exchange on which registered Class A Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share NWSA The Nasdaq Global Select Market Class B Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share NWS The Nasdaq Global Select Market Large accelerated filer ☒ Accelerated filer ☐ Non-accelerated filer ☐ Smaller reporting company ☐ Emerging growth company ☐ UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 _________________________________________ FORM 10-Q ...

Exhibit 99.1 NEWS CORPORATION REPORTS FIRST QUARTER RESULTS FOR FISCAL 2025 FISCAL 2025 FIRST QUARTER KEY FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS • First quarter revenues were the highest for a first quarter since separation at $2.58 billion, a 3% increase compared to $2.50 billion in the prior year, driven by growth at the Digital Real Estate Services, Book Publishing and Dow Jones segments • Net income in the quarter was $144 million, a significant improvement compared to net income of $58 million in the prior year • Total ...

Activist Irenic Capital Management said Tuesday that it would back fellow dissident Starboard Value's push to dissolve the dual-class structure at Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, ahead of a closely watched shareholder meeting.For the last two years, Jeff Smith's Starboard has been mounting a campaign at the media conglomerate, seeking both the dissolution of the dual-class structure that gives the Murdoch family outsize control and for the company to split off its highly-valuable online real-estate business.Ada ...

September's rate drop and increase in new listings led to October's increase in pending sales, but could rising rates in October hinder momentum? Affordability issues in swing states may have these voters more interested in Federal housing policies SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 31, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Last month's home sellers not only listed their homes, but bought new ones and sent a surge of demand into the market this month, according to the Realtor.com® October Monthly Housing Report. The rise in new list ...

Dow Jones & Co., parent of the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post, both owned by News Corp., sued the Jeff Bezos-backed generative AI startup Perplexity for copyright infringement, the latest in a stream of lawsuits around artificial intelligence that have met with varying degrees of success. Perplexity “claims to provide its users accurate and up-to-date news and information in a platform that, in Perplexity’s own words, allows users to “Skip the Links” to original publishers’ websites. Perplexity ...

The parent companies of The Post and The Wall Street Journal have filed suit against the Jeff Bezos-backed artificial intelligence firm Perplexity AI for allegedly engaging in a “massive amount of illegal copying” of the publications’ copyrighted work.NYP Holdings, Inc. and Dow Jones, both of which are subsidiaries of News Corp, jointly filed the lawsuit against Perplexity AI in Manhattan federal court on Monday demanding that the firm cease using their news articles as the basis for answers to questions.Th ...

Newly listed homes increased by 11.6% YOY and actively listed homes rose 33.9% YOY, according to Realtor.com® September Housing Report SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Sellers got moving as mortgage rates notably hit a 24- month low following the Federal Reserve's jumbo rate cut of 50 bps in September. According to the Realtor.com® September Housing Report, newly listed homes increased by 11.6% compared to last September, yielding a significant reversal from the 0.9% decrease in August 2024 ...

A New Report from Realtor.com found South Carolina, North Carolina and Idaho are the top three states leading the new construction activity and affordability rankings New Construction Nationally is Helping Add Needed Inventory and Affordable Options SANTA CLARA, Calif., Sept. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Realtor.com® launched a brand new report "New Construction Insights," which found South Carolina, North Carolina and Idaho lead the way when it comes to new home construction. This report creates a ranki ...