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For years, the Murdoch family drama has played out like a real-life version of HBO's Succession — its heirs and rival power brokers contributing to a quasi-Shakespearean media saga that's captivated investors, press critics, and political observers alike. But with patriarch Rupert Murdoch's eldest son Lachlan now having secured long-term control of Fox and News Corp via a new family trust that extends his leadership to 2050, at least one major chapter in that drama — the battle over succession — is effectively over.

Shares of News Corp (NWSA) and Fox (FOXA) declined in premarket trading after Rupert Murdoch's media empire settled a yearslong family fight over which of the mogul's children will control the Murdoch family trust.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--News Corporation (“News Corp” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: NWSA, NWS; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) today announced the pricing of the previously announced underwritten public offering (the “Offering”) by trusts established for the benefit of Prudence MacLeod, Elisabeth Murdoch and James Murdoch and his or her respective descendants and charitable organizations (the “Selling Stockholders”) of 14,071,293 shares of News Corp's Class B common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Clas.

Lachlan Murdoch -- the executive chairman and CEO of Fox Corp. and chairman of News Corp -- will maintain control of the media giant forged by his 94-year-old father, Rupert Murdoch.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--News Corporation (“News Corp” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: NWSA, NWS; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) today announced that trusts established for the benefit of Prudence MacLeod, Elisabeth Murdoch and James Murdoch and his or her respective descendants and charitable organizations (the “Selling Stockholders”) intend to offer an aggregate of 14,182,161 shares of News Corp's Class B common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Class B common stock”), in an underwritten public offering.

News Corp posts flat adjusted revenues and a 5% y/y dip in EPS in Q4. However, Dow Jones and real estate units fuel top-line growth.

News Corporation (NASDAQ:NWSA ) Q4 2025 Earnings Conference Call August 5, 2025 5:00 PM ET Company Participants Lavanya Chandrashekar - Chief Financial Officer Michael Florin - Senior VP & Head of Investor Relations Robert J. Thomson - CEO & Director Conference Call Participants Alan Steven Gould - Loop Capital Markets LLC, Research Division Brian Han - Morningstar Inc., Research Division Craig Anthony Huber - Huber Research Partners, LLC David Karnovsky - JPMorgan Chase & Co, Research Division David Carl Joyce - Seaport Research Partners Entcho Raykovski - E&P, Research Division Evan Karatzas - UBS Investment Bank, Research Division Kane Hannan - Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Research Division Operator Welcome to News Corp's Fourth Quarter and Full Year Fiscal 2025 Earnings Conference Call.

Although the revenue and EPS for News Corp. (NWSA) give a sense of how its business performed in the quarter ended June 2025, it might be worth considering how some key metrics compare with Wall Street estimates and the year-ago numbers.

Segment profits of group that publishes The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch and Barron's rose 10%

“These robust results have enhanced our financial position and thus our ability to return capital to shareholders,” News Corp CEO Robert Thomson said.