News Corporation Class B Company Profile
NASDAQ: NWSConsumer DiscretionaryNewspapers/MagazinesUSD
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News at a glance
News Corporation Class B (NASDAQ: NWS) is a Newspapers/Magazines company in the Consumer Discretionary sector headquartered in New York, NY. News is led by Mr. Robert J. Thomson and employs about 21,700 people. At a market capitalization of $17.03 billion, it is considered a large-cap company.
NWS is a member of the SP500. Its SEC Central Index Key (CIK) is 0001564708, which identifies the company's filings on EDGAR.
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What does News do?
News Corporation, a media and information services company, creates and distributes authoritative and engaging content, and other products and services for consumers and businesses in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australasia, and internationally. It operates through five segments: Dow Jones, Digital Real Estate Services, Book Publishing, News Media, and Other. The company distributes news, data, and business information under The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch, Investor's Business Daily, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Energy, Factiva, and Dow Jones Newswires brands through various media channels, including websites, mobile apps, newspapers, newswires, newsletters, magazines, proprietary databases, live journalism, video, and podcasts. It also provides advertises property and property-related services on its websites and mobile apps, such as realestate.com.au, realcommercial.com.au, Flatmates.com.au, and property portals, as well as residential, commercial, and share property websites; mortgage broking offering and property-related data services to the financial sector; and Realtor.com, RealPRO SelectSM, ConnectionsSM Plus, Listing Toolkit products, RealChoiceTM Selling, and Realtor.com+TM. In addition, the company publishes and distributes consumer books comprising general fiction, nonfiction, and childrens and religious publishing through print and digital formats under the Harper, William Morrow, Mariner, HarperCollins Children's Books, Avon, Harlequin and Christian publishers, Zondervan, and Thomas Nelson; provides news and information under the The Australian, The Weekend Australian, The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph, Herald Sun, Sunday Herald Sun, The Courier Mail, The Sunday Mail, The Advertiser, and Sunday Mail names; and operates talkSPORT, a sports radio network. News Corporation was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Business description based on the company's public filings.
Company information
- Legal name
- News Corporation Class B
- Ticker
- NASDAQ: NWS
- Sector
- Consumer Discretionary
- Industry
- Newspapers/Magazines
- CEO
- Mr. Robert J. Thomson
- Employees
- 21,700
- Headquarters
- 1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, United States
- Phone
- 212 416 3400
- Website
- newscorp.com
- Market cap
- $17.03B
- SEC CIK
- 0001564708
- Latest annual report
- 10-K · Aug 7, 2026
Index membership
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