Welcome to our dedicated page for News SEC filings (Ticker: NWSA), a comprehensive resource for investors and traders seeking official regulatory documents including 10-K annual reports, 10-Q quarterly earnings, 8-K material events, and insider trading forms.
The SEC filings page for News Corporation (NWSA) provides access to the company’s official regulatory disclosures, including current reports on Form 8-K, annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and registration statements. These documents offer detailed information on governance arrangements, capital markets transactions, stock repurchase programs and the performance of News Corporation’s media, publishing and digital real estate businesses.
Recent Form 8-K filings illustrate the type of information investors can find here. An 8-K filed on September 10, 2025 describes a new stockholders agreement with LGC Holdco and certain Murdoch family trusts that limits their combined voting power in the company’s Class B common stock to a specified percentage and sets out vote forfeiture and registration rights provisions. The same filing details an underwriting agreement for a secondary offering of Class B shares by trusts associated with Prudence MacLeod, Elisabeth Murdoch and James Murdoch, noting that the company did not sell shares and received no proceeds.
Other 8-Ks filed in August and September 2025 discuss stock repurchase programs authorizing the company to acquire up to an aggregate dollar amount of its outstanding Class A and Class B shares. These filings explain that News Corporation reports daily repurchase activity to the Australian Securities Exchange and includes repurchase information in its quarterly and annual SEC reports.
On this page, users can review such filings to understand how News Corporation manages its dual-class share structure, documents agreements affecting Murdoch family voting power, reports repurchase activity and communicates financial results. AI-powered tools on the platform can help summarize lengthy documents, highlight key items such as governance changes, secondary offerings and repurchase authorizations, and make it easier to locate specific disclosures within 8-K, 10-K and 10-Q filings.
News Corporation detailed activity under its previously authorized stock repurchase program of up to US$1 billion of Nasdaq-listed Class A and Class B common stock. The company is required to report daily buy-back data to the Australian Securities Exchange and has furnished those disclosures as exhibits.
ASX notifications show cumulative buy-backs of 1,266,827 and 576,199 securities in two classes for total consideration of about US$31.6 million and US$16.5 million, respectively. Purchases have occurred in the open market, with Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC acting as broker.
The company describes these repurchase intentions as forward-looking and highlights that actual activity may change with stock price, market conditions, legal requirements and alternative investment opportunities. No ASX-listed CDIs are being repurchased under this program, and no additional shareholder approval is required.
News Corporation filed an 8-K describing updates on its ongoing share repurchase activity under a previously authorized stock buyback program of up to US$1 billion for its Nasdaq-listed Class A and Class B common stock.
The company is required by the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) to submit daily Appendix 3C notifications when it buys back securities and has attached two such ASX reports as exhibits. These reports outline recent on-market buy-backs executed via Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, including total cash consideration amounts such as US$20,892,308.10 and US$10,478,045.23 and price ranges between roughly US$23.615 and US$31.40 per share.
State Street Corporation has reported a 7.2% beneficial ownership stake in News Corp common stock as of 12/31/2025. The filing shows beneficial ownership of 27,067,301 shares, with shared voting power over 20,099,422 shares and shared dispositive power over 27,065,924 shares, and no sole voting or dispositive power.
State Street certifies that these securities were acquired and are held in the ordinary course of business, and not for the purpose of changing or influencing control of News Corp. Several State Street Global Advisors entities are identified as relevant investment adviser subsidiaries involved in holding these shares.
News Corporation filed a current report to note that it has released financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2025. The results are provided in a press release dated February 5, 2026, which is attached as an exhibit and incorporated by reference.
News Corporation filed a current report describing its ongoing stock repurchase programs. Under these programs, the company is authorized to acquire from time to time up to $1 billion in the aggregate of its outstanding Class A and Class B common stock. The filing explains that, under Australian Securities Exchange rules, News Corp must provide daily disclosure of any such repurchase transactions to the ASX, and it also updates investors through its quarterly and annual reports.
The report attaches, as Exhibits 99.1 and 99.2, the information supplied to the ASX on the respective dates noted in those exhibits. It highlights that statements about the company’s intent to repurchase shares are "forward-looking statements" subject to changes in market price, general conditions, applicable laws and alternative investment opportunities, as well as risk factors described in the company’s other SEC filings.
News Corporation reported that under its existing stock repurchase programs it is authorized to buy back up to $1 billion in total of its Class A and Class B common shares. The company explains that, under Australian Securities Exchange rules, it must provide the ASX with daily disclosure of any repurchase transactions and also includes repurchase information in its quarterly and annual reports.
The filing attaches as exhibits the information supplied to the ASX and notes that these materials contain forward-looking statements about potential future share repurchases. News Corporation emphasizes that actual repurchase activity may differ due to factors such as changes in its share price, overall market conditions, securities laws and alternative investment opportunities, and states it does not undertake to update these forward-looking statements except as required by law.
NEWS CORP reported insider activity showing that three Murdoch family trusts sold their entire reported holdings of its Class A and Class B shares. On September 10, 2025, the trusts sold 7,125 Class A shares and 38,335,059 Class B shares through an underwritten offering and related transactions where the shares were ultimately acquired by LGC Holdco, LLC. Following these transactions, the trusts are stated to have no direct or indirect interest in News Corp, marking a complete exit by these former 10% owners.
Three family trusts jointly filed an initial Form 3 reporting beneficial ownership in News Corporation (NWS/NWSA). The filing shows a total of 38,327,934 shares of Class B common stock and 7,125 shares of Class A common stock held of record by the reporting persons. The filing states these Shares were transferred for no consideration by the Murdoch Family Trust on September 6, 2025. The Form 3 was signed by each trust's trustee and filed jointly.
News Corporation entered a new stockholders agreement with LGC Holdco and family trusts for Lachlan, Grace and Chloe Murdoch and terminated a prior agreement with the Murdoch Family Trust. The new agreement largely matches the old one, including a cap that the Murdoch individuals, LGC Family Trusts and LGC Holdco together cannot control more than 44% of the voting power of Class B common stock, with votes forfeited if needed to stay under that level. It also gives the Company a right of first refusal on underwritten public offerings of Class B shares held by LGC Holdco or the LGC Family Trusts and provides those holders with registration rights.
Separately, trusts for Prudence MacLeod, Elisabeth Murdoch and James Murdoch sold 14,071,293 Class B shares to Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC at $31.98 per share in a fully secondary offering under an existing shelf registration. The Company did not sell any shares and received no proceeds from this transaction.
Murdoch Family Trust and Cruden Financial Services LLC reported internal transfers of News Corp shares on 09/06/2025. The filing discloses that the Murdoch Family Trust transferred approximately 50% of its Class A and Class B common stock to three trusts for Prudence MacLeod, Elisabeth Murdoch and James Murdoch ("Departing Member Trusts") and transferred the remaining Class A and Class B shares to three trusts for Lachlan K. Murdoch, Grace Murdoch and Chloe Murdoch ("LGC Family Trusts"). The LGC Family Trusts contributed their shares to LGC Holdco, LLC, which is owned by those trusts and initially managed by Cruden. Table I shows dispositions coded J(1)(2): 14,250 Class A shares and 76,655,870 Class B shares were disposed with a reported price of $0, resulting in 0 shares beneficially owned by the reporting entities after the transactions. Cruden is the initial sole trustee/manager and may be deemed to beneficially own the transferred shares but disclaims any pecuniary interest.