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Current Report · Items 8.01, 9.01 · 8-K

News Corporation

Other Events

Item 8.01 Other Events. On September 8, 2025, News Corporation (the “Company”) announced that the trustee and beneficiaries of the Murdoch Family Trust (the “MFT”) informed the Company that they have reached a mutual resolution of the legal proceedings in Nevada related to the MFT.…

Filed Sep 8, 2025Accepted Sep 8, 2025, 4:25 PM EDTCIK 1564708Accession 0001104659-25-088268
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Company context

News Corp (Nasdaq: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) is a global, diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content and other products and services. The Company comprises businesses across a range of media, including: information services and news, digital real estate services and book publishing. Headquartered in New York, News Corp operates primarily in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom, and its content and other products and services are distributed and consumed worldwide. More information is available at: http://newscorp.com.

Current securities

Recent company filings

  1. Other EventsSep 25, 2026
  2. Other EventsSep 24, 2026
  3. ARS filingSep 23, 2026
  4. DEFA14A filingSep 23, 2026
  5. DEF 14A filingSep 23, 2026

Disclosure sections

Items 8.01, 9.01

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Item 8.01Item 8.01 - Other Events
Item 8.01 Other Events. On September 8, 2025, News Corporation (the “Company”) announced that the trustee and beneficiaries of the Murdoch Family Trust (the “MFT”) informed the Company that they have reached a mutual resolution of the legal proceedings in Nevada related to the MFT. New trusts will be established for the benefit of Lachlan Murdoch, Grace Murdoch and Chloe Murdoch, and Prudence MacLeod, Elisabeth Murdoch and James Murdoch (the “Departing Beneficiaries”) will cease to be beneficiaries in any trust holding shares in the Company. On September 8, 2025, the Company also announced that trusts for the Departing Beneficiaries and his or her respective descendants and charitable organizations (the “Selling Stockholders”) intend to offer approximately 14.2 million shares of the Company’s Class B common stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Class B common stock”), previously held by the MFT in an underwritten public offering (the “Offering”). The Selling Stockholders will receive all of the proceeds from the Offering. The Company is not selling any shares of Class B common stock in the Offering and will not receive any proceeds from the Offering. The Offering is subject to market and other conditions, and there can be no assurance as to whether or when the Offering may be completed. Copies of the Company’s press releases are attached as Exhibits 99.1 and 99.2 to this Form 8-K and are incorporated herein by reference.
Filed exhibits (2)
EX-99.1 (by filename) tm2521115d2_ex99-1.htm

EX-99.1 2 tm2521115d2_ex99-1.htm EXHIBIT 99.1 Exhibit 99.1 News Corp Announces Resolution of Murdoch Family Trust Matter New York, NY (September 8, 2025) - News Corporation (“News Corp” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) today announced that the trustee and beneficiaries of the Murdoch Family Trust (“MFT”) informed the Company that they have reached a mutual resolution of the legal proceedings in Nevada related to the MFT, resulting in the termination of all litigation. New trusts will be established for the benefit of Lachlan Murdoch, Grace Murdoch and Chloe Murdoch (the “Remaining Beneficiary Trusts”), and Prudence MacLeod, Elisabeth Murdoch and James Murdoch (the “Departing Beneficiaries”) will cease to be beneficiaries in any trust holding shares in News Corp or Fox Corporation. New trusts for the benefit of the Departing Beneficiaries will receive cash consideration funded in part using proceeds from the public sale of approximately 14.2 million shares of News Corp Class B common stock and approximately 16.9 million shares of Fox Corporation Class B common stock previously held by the MFT. Following these transactions, LGC Holdco, LLC (“LGC Holdco”)…

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EX-99.2 (by filename) tm2521115d2_ex99-2.htm

EX-99.2 3 tm2521115d2_ex99-2.htm EXHIBIT 99.2 Exhibit 99.2 News Corp Announces Secondary Offering of Class B Common Stock New York, NY - September 8, 2025 - 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 (the “Offering”). The Selling Stockholders will receive all of the proceeds from the Offering. The Company is not selling any shares of Class B common stock in the Offering and will not receive any proceeds from the Offering. The Offering is subject to market and other conditions, and there can be no assurance as to whether or when the Offering may be completed. Morgan Stanley is acting as the sole underwriter for the Offering. The Offering will be made only by means of an effective registration statement and a prospectus. The Company has previously filed …

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