News Corp is a U.S.-based global media and information services company headquartered in New York City. It operates across print and digital publishing, book publishing, news and information services, and real estate data, with major operations in the U.S., Australia, the U.K., and elsewhere. The company is primarily known for owning some of the world's most recognized news brands, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, the New York Post, and The Times of London, as well as the HarperCollins book publishing group.
News Corp in its current form was established in 2013, when Rupert Murdoch split his original News Corporation — the conglomerate he had built over decades — into two separate publicly traded companies. The entertainment and film assets were spun off into 21st Century Fox (later acquired by Walt Disney $DIS Company and Fox Corporation), while the publishing and news assets were retained under the News Corp name. Murdoch founded the predecessor company in Australia in 1980, though his media empire dates to 1952, when he inherited control of News Limited in Adelaide, Australia.
The company is publicly traded on the Nasdaq $NDAQ stock exchange under the ticker symbols NWS and NWSA, reflecting its dual-class share structure. Voting control of the company has historically been concentrated in the Murdoch family through its holdings of higher-voting Class B shares.
Beyond its flagship news properties, News Corp owns Dow Jones — the financial data and news business that publishes The Wall Street Journal and provides data and analytics services to financial professionals worldwide. It also owns News Corp Australia, one of that country's largest newspaper publishers, and the real estate portal operator Move Inc., which runs Realtor.com in the U.S. The company's scale and reach make it one of the largest English-language media groups in the world by circulation and content output.
