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.
Form 144 notice filed for NWSA reporting proposed sale of Class A shares. The filer intends to sell 19,968 Class A shares through Fidelity Brokerage Services on NASDAQ with an approximate aggregate market value of $587,929.36. The filing shows the shares were acquired on 08/15/2025 via restricted stock vesting and the payment type is listed as compensation. The filing indicates no securities were sold by the reporting person in the past three months and includes the standard representation that the seller has no undisclosed material adverse information about the issuer.
Form 144 notice for News Corporation (NWSA) shows a proposed sale of 43,635 Class A shares through Fidelity Brokerage Services on 08/15/2025, with an aggregate market value of $1,297,142.99. The shares were acquired the same day as restricted stock vesting from the issuer and the consideration is recorded as compensation. The filing reports 376,442,848 Class A shares outstanding and indicates no securities sold by this person in the prior three months. Several issuer and filer identifying fields are not populated in the form.
Form 144 notice for News Corporation (NWSA) reports a proposed sale of 22,238 Class A shares valued at $663,330.21, to be executed on 08/15/2025 through Fidelity Brokerage Services on NASDAQ. The shares were acquired and vested as restricted stock on 08/15/2025 and are being sold as compensation. The filer reports no other sales in the past three months and affirms no undisclosed material adverse information about the issuer.
T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. reports beneficial ownership of 19,153,201 shares of News Corp New Class A common stock, representing 5.1% of the class. The filing shows sole voting power over 17,963,283 shares and sole dispositive power over 19,117,243 shares, and identifies the reporting person as an investment adviser (IA).
The statement is filed as a Schedule 13G amendment and includes a certification that the securities are held in the ordinary course of business and were not acquired to change or influence control of the issuer. This disclosure documents a material passive stake above the 5% threshold while the filer expressly denies beneficial ownership for control purposes.
Independent Franchise Partners, LLP reports beneficial ownership of 9,423,928 shares of News Corporation Class B common stock, equal to 4.99% of the class. The filer discloses sole voting power over 9,330,848 shares and sole dispositive power over 9,423,928 shares, and is classified as an investment adviser (IA).
The filing indicates the stake is held in the ordinary course of business and not for the purpose of changing or influencing control of the issuer. Items reporting ownership on behalf of others, subsidiary acquisitions, group membership, and group dissolution are marked as not applicable.
News Corporation reaffirmed that it maintains an authorized share repurchase program allowing the company to acquire up to $1 billion in the aggregate of its Class A and Class B common stock. The filing explains the company provides daily disclosures to the Australian Securities Exchange for transactions under the program and also includes program information in its quarterly and annual reports.
The filing attaches copies of the information provided to the ASX as exhibits and includes standard forward-looking statements cautioning that repurchase intent is subject to market conditions and legal limits and that the company does not undertake to update those statements except as required by law.
News Corporation reiterates that under its stock repurchase programs it is authorized to acquire up to $1 billion in the aggregate of its Class A and Class B common stock. The company says it provides daily disclosure of transactions under those programs to the Australian Securities Exchange and also discloses related information in its quarterly and annual reports. Copies of the information provided to the ASX are attached as Exhibit 99.1 and Exhibit 99.2.
The attached ASX disclosures include forward-looking statements about the company's intent to repurchase shares that the company describes as based on management expectations and subject to market, legal and other risks; the filing states these statements are made only as of the report date and disclaims any obligation to update them except as required by law. This filing does not specify executed repurchase amounts or timing.
State Street Corporation reported beneficial ownership of 26,909,041 News Corp (NWSA) common shares, representing 7.1% of the class. The filing shows shared voting power over 19,844,966 shares and shared dispositive power over 26,907,664 shares while reporting zero sole voting or dispositive power, indicating these holdings are managed through shared authority across its advisory entities. The statement also certifies the securities are held in the ordinary course of business and not for the purpose of changing or influencing control. Several State Street Global Advisors subsidiaries are identified as the acquiring entities.