General Info

News Corporation, an international media and entertainment giant, is responsible for three of the top five motion pictures of all time: Star Wars, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace and Titanic. The company operates in seven industry segments: filmed entertainment, television, cable network programming, direct broadcast satellite television, magazines and inserts, newspapers and book publishing. The company s film segment is responsible for many major Hollywood productions and consists of 20th Century FOX, FOX Searchlight Pictures and Fox Television Studios. The company's television group has experienced 10 consecutive years of record profits, and, with popular shows such as 24, American Idol, Family Guy and That 70s Show, FOX Broadcasting Company is America's most watched network among young adults. News Corporation s newspaper group is the world's leading publisher of English-language newspapers, publishing more than 175 different newspapers and nearly 40 million individual copies a week. The book publishing division includes HarperCollins Publishers, the largest literary publisher in the world. K. Rupert Murdoch has been the chief executive officer of News Corporation for more than 27 years. He has been with the company for 53 years. Murdoch earned a MA degree from Oxford University. News Corporation is headquartered in New York City and has additional operations in the United Kingdom, Australia and Fiji.