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News Corporation

multinational media corporation (1980–2013)
Organization business Q185278
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Summary

News Corporation is a business[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (5,081 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: United States[3], US[4], BE[5]
  • Instance of: enterprise[6], public company[7]
  • Founder: Rupert Murdoch[8]
  • Follows: Chris-Craft Industries[9]
  • Followed by: 21st Century Fox[10], News Corp[11]
  • Headquarters location: 1211 Avenue of the Americas[12], New York City[13], Adelaide[14]
  • Chief executive officer: Rupert Murdoch[15]
  • Child organization or unit: News Corp Australia[16]
  • Commons category: News Corporation[17]
  • Stock exchange: Nasdaq[18]
  • Industry: entertainment industry[19], mass media[20]
  • Chairperson: Chase Carey[21]
  • Inception: 1980[22], 1979[23], 1994-12-09[24], 2003-10-23[25], 2012-12-11[26]
  • Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: June 28, 2013[27]
  • Start time: 1980[28]
  • Location of formation: Adelaide[29]
  • Significant event: spin-off company[30]
  • Official website: https://newscorp.com/[31]
  • Topic's main category: Category:News Corporation[32]
  • Product or material produced: cable television[33]
  • Employees: 51,000[34]
  • Legal form: Delaware corporation[35], 9999[36], R85P[37], XTIQ[38], QK2J[39]
  • Owner of: Freenet digital GmbH[40], Fox Movie Channel[41], Foxstar Productions[42], SF Broadcasting[43], What They Play[44], XYZnetworks[45], Fox Sports[46], Fox Sports Uruguay[47], Fox Lab[48], The Daily[49], The Times[50], The Wall Street Journal[51], bTV[52], Fox Entertainment Group[53]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 549300YBCMRP1ZVOWM12[54]

  • Registered legal name: News Corporation[55]

  • Legal jurisdiction: US[56]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[57]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): 9999[58]

  • Other legal form: CORPORATION[59]

  • Entity status: NULL[60]

  • LEI registration status: DUPLICATE[61]

  • LEI first registered: 2014-03-04[62]

  • LEI last updated: 2023-08-04[63]

  • LEI next renewal: 2015-02-28[64]

  • Managing LOU: 5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12[65]

  • Registration authority: RA999999[66]

  • Successor LEI: 549300ITS31QK8VRBQ14[67]

  • Conformity flag: NOT_APPLICABLE[68]

Why It Matters

News Corporation has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[69] It is known by 39 alternative names across languages and contexts.[70]

Related Entities

21st Century Fox Adelaide business Fox Entertainment Group mass media Nasdaq News Corp New York City public company Rupert Murdoch The Wall Street Journal Times Media United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  33. [35] ↑ . Global LEI Index. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [54] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [55] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [56] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [57] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [58] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [59] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [60] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [61] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [62] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [63] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [64] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [65] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [66] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [67] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [68] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [69] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [70] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14750 → 2C70-728A-8059-1BC3-9F5B
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  2. 11w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Significant event → spin-off company
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    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: news-corporation, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289952472|news corporation (#289952472)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harpe"
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