Overview
News Corporation (News Corp) is a global media and information-services company operating across news and business information, digital real estate services, book publishing, and news media. Its five reporting segments are Dow Jones, Digital Real Estate Services, Book Publishing, News Media, and Other.[1][2]
Its portfolio includes The Wall Street Journal and other Dow Jones products, REA Group and Move, HarperCollins, and news businesses in Australia, the U.K., and the U.S.[1][3][4][5][6] News Corp describes its purpose as delivering premium products and services that inform and inspire.[1] For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2026, it reported revenue of $9.028 billion; it reported 21,700 employees as of that date.[7][8] [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
Products & services
News Corp’s products span financial information, property platforms, books and news media. Dow Jones publishes The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch and Investor’s Business Daily in print and digital formats, and offers newsletters, podcasts, video, events and other content. Its professional products include Factiva for business content, Dow Jones Newswires for real-time business news and analysis, Risk & Compliance tools and data, and Energy pricing data, news and analysis. Revenue comes from subscriptions and single-copy sales, advertising, licensing and events. Dow Jones contributed about 27.7% of FY2026 revenue.[1][9]
Its digital property services include REA Group’s realestate.com.au, realcommercial.com.au and Flatmates.com.au, as well as property search, financing, mortgage broking and data services. Move operates Realtor.com®, a property search platform with AI-powered natural-language search and interactive visuals; named offerings include RealPRO Select, Connections Plus and Listing Toolkit for lead generation and listing advertising, and RealChoice Selling, a referral service. Digital Real Estate Services contributed about 22.3% of FY2026 revenue.[3][10][11][12]
HarperCollins publishes fiction, nonfiction, children’s and religious books through more than 120 imprints, including Harper, William Morrow, Avon, Harlequin, Zondervan and Thomas Nelson; it also licenses titles and provides third-party distribution. Digital books accounted for about 23% of consumer revenue and backlist titles about 62% in FY2026. News Media products include newspapers and digital news brands such as The Australian, news.com.au, The Times, The Sun and the New York Post, plus talkSPORT, Virgin Radio, Talk and the News24 news network. These businesses contributed about 25.3% and 24.7% of FY2026 revenue, respectively.[5][13][14][6][15] [1][9][3][10][11][12][5][13][14][6][15]
Geographic presence
News Corp’s principal operating geographies include the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. Its News Media operations include the New York Post in the U.S., News UK in the U.K. and News Corp Australia; News Broadcasting operates U.K. radio stations, while Australian News Channel operates the Australia-focused News24 service.[6][15]
The company’s corporate headquarters are in New York City. Its London office houses operations for News UK, Dow Jones and HarperCollins, as well as U.K. radio studios; in Sydney, 2 Holt Street houses News Corp Australia’s headquarters and media operations.[16][17][18][19] The company also reports offices and warehouse space elsewhere in Europe, leased space in Australia and Asia, and publishing, printing and office facilities in England, Scotland and Adelaide.[18][19]
The FY2026 filing’s revenue disclosure is by business segment rather than country or region, and the located disclosure does not provide a geographic breakdown of employees.[20][21] [6][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]
Business segments
For FY2026, News Corp reported four operating segments and an “Other” category. The approximate shares below are calculated from each segment’s revenue as a proportion of consolidated revenue; they are revenue mix, not company-reported percentage contributions.[22]
Dow Jones (27.7% of revenue) provides news, data and business information for consumers and enterprises, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch, Investor’s Business Daily and professional information services. Digital Real Estate Services (22.3%) comprises REA Group and Move, which operate property-search and advertising platforms and related services. Book Publishing (25.3%) is HarperCollins’ global consumer publishing business.[22]
News Media (24.7%) includes News Corp Australia, News UK, the New York Post, radio and Australian News Channel, with activities spanning news publishing, subscriptions, advertising and licensing. “Other,” primarily corporate and strategic costs, had no reported revenue in FY2026 (0.0%).[22] [22][22]
Company history
News Corp traces its roots to an Australian newspaper business established in the 1920s, associated with Sir Keith Murdoch and Rupert Murdoch [23]. In 1964, Rupert Murdoch launched The Australian as a national daily newspaper [24]. The company later expanded internationally, including its 2007 acquisition of Dow Jones [25]. In 2012, it acquired Consolidated Media Holdings, expanding its Australian media interests [26].
On June 28, 2013, the publishing and information businesses separated from the former News Corporation, which became 21st Century Fox; the newly independent News Corp began operating as a distinct company [27][28]. At launch, Rupert Murdoch was Executive Chairman and Robert Thomson was CEO [29]. In 2014, News Corp completed its acquisition of Move, Inc., operator of realtor.com® [30]. Rupert Murdoch announced in 2023 that he would step down as chairman, with Lachlan Murdoch to become sole Chair following the annual meeting [31]. In April 2025, News Corp completed the sale of Foxtel Group to DAZN [32][33]. [26][27][29][32][23][24][25][28][30][31][33]
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