News Corp Distances Itself From Ailing Print

News Corp is undergoing its most radical change since the split of June 2013 as digital subscriptions in newspaper and from the newly merged Foxtel/Fox Sports business becomes the most important revenue and profit driver, supported by the company’s growing digital real estate operations in Australia and the US.

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Change Aplenty At News Corp

A lot of action around News Corp over night and this morning as the anti takeover poison pill protection was extended for three years, a 10 cents a share semi annual dividend was revealed, job cuts announced at the Wall Street Journal and a change in senior management in Australia.

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Print Weighs On News Corp Profit

The strong result we reported this week from REA Group, 62% owned by News Corp, plus a full three months contribution from Fox Sports Australia, helped turn the December quarter results for Rupert Murdoch’s other company from a nasty slide, into a merely hiccup caused mostly by another poor quarter for the group’s struggling Australian newspapers.

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