NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– News Corporation (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) (the “Company”) today announced that, in connection with the previously announced separation of the Company into two distinct publicly traded companies, 21st Century Fox and the new News Corporation, it expects that trading of the new News Corporation Class A and Class B common [...]

News Corporation (NWSA) June 11, 2013 10:00 am ET Executives Keith Rupert Murdoch – Co-Founder, Executive Chairman, Chairman of the Media Entertainment Arm and Chief Executive of the Media Entertainment Arm Presentation Keith Rupert Murdoch Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. If you’d all please be seated. I’m Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of [...]

News Corporation (NWSA) inched a step closer toward splitting its operations into 2 separate publicly traded publishing and entertainment entities as the company’s stockholders in special meeting consented to the company’s decision. The separation is expected to augur well for News Corporation, which has been in troubled waters since the revelation of the phone hacking [...]

On Tuesday, shareholders approved measures that will allow Murdoch’s sprawling media empire to be cleaved into two separate publicly traded companies. The most profitable assets — Fox News Channel, the Fox broadcast TV network, Fox regional sports networks, FX and the 20th Century Fox movie studio — will form 21st Century Fox Inc. The publishing [...]

News Corporation (NasdaqGS: NWS – news) is thought to be edging towards a settlement with the US Department of Justice, as Rupert Murdoch battles to limit the fallout from the phone hacking and police bribery scandal. Sources at the media empire, which is preparing to split into two at the end of this month, say [...]

After years of being criticized by investors for his love of newspapers, News Corp. (NWS) Chairman Rupert Murdoch takes a step closer to cleaving off the declining publishing business today. Shareholders are scheduled to vote to approve the breakup plan at a special meeting this morning in New York, where the company is based. The [...]

One amendment authorizes the company to change its name to 21st Century Fox, enabling the publishing division, which is preparing to spin off into a stand-alone entity, to claim the News Corp. name. The other two measures provide a structure for the separation and allow for the distribution of equity for the proposed new corporate [...]

Non-profit news organizations have been making an impact in the US market but face financial challenges similar to those of their commercial counterparts, a study said Monday. The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism said it identified 172 “active nonprofit news sites” launched from 1987 to 2012, created by charitable foundations, individuals or [...]

Rivers falling but fresh storms means risk of floods remains Water levels on the Vltava and Labe rivers, which became swollen last week after heavy rainfall, are continuing to fall. However, with storms and persistent rain due until Tuesday, the risk of flooding remains in some parts of Bohemia. Local authorities have been ordered to [...]

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