NEWS CORP (NWSA) Business

ITEM 1. BUSINESS

OVERVIEW

The Company

News Corporation (the “Company,” “News Corp,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) is a global, diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content and other products and services to consumers and businesses throughout the world. The Company comprises businesses across a range of media, including information services and news, digital real estate services and book publishing, that are distributed under some of the world’s most recognizable and respected brands, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Dow Jones, The Australian, Herald Sun, The Sun, The Times, HarperCollins Publishers, realestate.com.au, Realtor.com®, talkSPORT and many others.

The Company’s commitment to premium content makes its properties a premier destination for information, news, real estate and entertainment. The Company distributes its content and other products and services to consumers and customers across an array of digital platforms including websites, mobile apps, social media, e-book devices and streaming audio platforms, as well as traditional platforms such as print and radio. The Company’s focus on quality and product innovation has enabled it to capitalize on the shift to digital consumption to deliver its products and services in a more engaging, timely and personalized manner and create opportunities for more effective monetization, including new licensing and partnership arrangements with large technology companies and AI-focused platforms and digital offerings that leverage the Company’s existing content. The Company is pursuing multiple strategies to further exploit these opportunities, including leveraging global audience scale and valuable data and sharing technologies and practices across geographies and businesses.

The Company’s diversified revenue base includes recurring subscriptions, circulation sales, advertising sales, sales of real estate listing products, licensing fees and other consumer product sales. Headquartered in New York, the Company operates primarily in the United States (“U.S.”), Australia and the United Kingdom (“U.K.”), with its content and other products and services distributed and consumed worldwide. The Company’s operations are organized into five reportable segments: (i) Dow Jones; (ii) Digital Real Estate Services; (iii) Book Publishing; (iv) News Media; and (v) Other, which includes the Company’s general corporate overhead expenses, strategy costs and costs related to the U.K. Newspaper Matters (as defined in Note 16—Commitments and Contingencies in the accompanying Consolidated Financial Statements).

The Company maintains a 52-53 week fiscal year ending on the Sunday nearest to June 30 in each year. Fiscal 2026, fiscal 2025 and fiscal 2024 each included 52 weeks. Unless otherwise noted, all references to the fiscal years ended June 30, 2026, June 30, 2025 and June 30, 2024 relate to the fiscal years ended June 28, 2026, June 29, 2025 and June 30, 2024, respectively. For convenience purposes, the Company continues to date its financial statements as of June 30.

Corporate Information

News Corporation is a Delaware corporation originally organized on December 11, 2012 in connection with its separation from Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc., which was completed on June 28, 2013. Unless otherwise indicated, references in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2026 (the “Annual Report”) to the “Company,” “News Corp,” “we,” “us,” or “our” means News Corporation and its subsidiaries. The Company’s principal executive offices are located at 1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10036, and its telephone number is (212) 416-3400. The Company’s Class A and Class B Common Stock are listed on The Nasdaq Global Select Market under the trading symbols “NWSA” and “NWS,” respectively, and CHESS Depositary Interests representing the Company’s Class A and Class B Common Stock are listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (“ASX”) under the trading symbols “NWSLV” and “NWS,” respectively. More information regarding the Company is available on its website at www.newscorp.com, including the Company’s Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), which are available, free of charge, as soon as reasonably practicable after the material is electronically filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). The information on the Company’s website is not, and shall not be deemed to be, a part of this Annual Report or incorporated into any other filings it makes with the SEC.

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Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This document and any documents incorporated by reference into this Annual Report, including “Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” contain statements that constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 21E of the Exchange Act and Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. All statements that are not statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements. The words “expect,” “will,” “estimate,” “anticipate,” “predict,” “believe,” “should” and similar expressions and variations thereof are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These statements appear in a number of places in this document and include statements regarding the intent, belief or current expectations of the Company, its directors or its officers with respect to, among other things, trends affecting the Company’s business, financial condition or results of operations, the Company’s strategy and strategic initiatives, including potential acquisitions, investments and dispositions, the Company’s cost savings initiatives and the outcome of contingencies such as litigation and investigations. Readers are cautioned that any forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties. More information regarding these risks and uncertainties and other important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements is set forth under the heading “Item 1A. Risk Factors” in this Annual Report. The Company does not ordinarily make projections of its future operating results and undertakes no obligation (and expressly disclaims any obligation) to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law. Readers should carefully review this document and the other documents filed by the Company with the SEC. This section should be read together with the Consolidated Financial Statements of News Corporation (the “Consolidated Financial Statements”) and related notes set forth elsewhere in this Annual Report.

BUSINESS OVERVIEW

The Company’s five reportable segments are described below.

Dow Jones

The Company’s Dow Jones segment is a global provider of news, data and business information distributed through a variety of owned and off-platform media channels, including websites, mobile apps, newspapers, newswires, newsletters, magazines, proprietary databases, live journalism, video and podcasts. This segment consists of the Dow Jones business, whose products target individual consumers and enterprise customers and include The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch, Investor’s Business Daily, Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Energy, Factiva and Dow Jones Newswires. The Dow Jones segment’s revenue is diversified across business-to-consumer and business-to-business subscriptions, circulation, advertising, including custom content and sponsorships, licensing fees and participation fees for its live journalism events. Advertising revenues at the Dow Jones segment are subject to seasonality, with revenues typically highest in the Company’s second fiscal quarter due to the end-of-year holiday season.

News Products

Through its premier brands and authoritative journalism, the Dow Jones segment’s news products targeting individual consumers provide insights, research and understanding that enable consumers to stay informed and make educated financial decisions. Dow Jones also provides news, business information and data to enterprise customers through these news products, as well as its enterprise-focused products described under “Professional Information Products” below. The Dow Jones segment continues to capitalize on a variety of digital distribution platforms, technologies and business models for these products, including licensing its content for distribution on third-party platforms, which is referred to as off-platform distribution, and for artificial intelligence (“AI”) applications. With a focus on the financial markets, investing and other professional services, many of these products offer advertisers an attractive consumer demographic. News products include the following:

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•The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). WSJ, Dow Jones’s flagship news product, is available online, across multiple mobile devices and in print. WSJ covers national and international news and provides analysis, commentary, reviews and opinions on a wide range of topics, including business developments and trends, economics, financial markets, investing, politics, science and technology, lifestyle, culture, consumer products and sports. WSJ’s digital products offer both free content and premium, subscription-only content and are comprised of WSJ.com, WSJ mobile products (WSJ Mobile) and live and on-demand video through WSJ.com and other platforms (WSJ Video), as well as podcasts. For the year ended June 30, 2026, WSJ Mobile (including WSJ.com accessed via mobile devices, as well as apps, and excluding off-platform distribution) accounted for approximately 72% of visits to WSJ’s digital news and information products according to Adobe Analytics. WSJ’s print products are printed at plants located around the U.S., including both owned and third-party facilities.

•Barron’s Group. The Barron’s Group includes Barron’s and MarketWatch, among other properties.

Barron’s. Barron’s, which is available to subscribers online, across multiple mobile devices and in print, delivers news, analysis, investigative reporting, company profiles and insightful statistics for investors and others interested in the investment world.

MarketWatch. MarketWatch is an investing and financial news website targeting active investors. It also provides real-time commentary and investment tools and data. Products include mobile apps and a responsive design website, and revenue is generated through the sale of advertising, as well as its premium digital subscription service.

•Investor’s Business Daily (IBD). IBD provides investing content, analytical products and educational resources to subscribers online and in print, as well as through mobile apps and video. IBD’s services include the Investors.com website, the MarketSurge and LeaderBoard market research and analysis tools and a weekly print publication.

•The Wall Street Journal Digital Network (WSJDN). WSJDN offers advertisers the opportunity to reach Dow Jones’s audience across a number of brands, including WSJ, Barron’s, MarketWatch and IBD.

•Live Journalism. The Dow Jones segment offers a number of in-person and virtual conferences and events each year. These live journalism events offer advertisers and sponsors the opportunity to reach a select group of influential leaders from industry, finance, government and policy. Many of these programs also earn revenue from participation fees charged to attendees.

The following table provides selected information regarding average daily subscriptions during the three months ended June 30, 2026 for the Dow Jones segment’s subscription news products:

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(1)Based on internal data for the period from March 30, 2026 to June 28, 2026. See “Part I. Business—Explanatory Note Regarding Certain Metrics” for more information. Excludes off-platform distribution, except for certain custom workflow integrations in connection with enterprise customer subscriptions.

(2)Barron’s Group consists of Barron’s, MarketWatch, Financial News and Private Equity News.

(3)Total News Products consists of The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s Group and Investor’s Business Daily.

(4)Subscriptions include individual consumer subscriptions and enterprise customer subscriptions. Enterprise customer subscriptions include subscriptions purchased by companies, schools, businesses and associations for use by their respective employees, students, customers or members. Subscriptions exclude single-copy sales and copies purchased by hotels, airlines and other businesses for limited distribution or access to customers.

(5)For some publications, including The Wall Street Journal and Barron’s, the Dow Jones segment sells bundled print and digital products. For bundles that provide access to both print and digital products every day of the week, only one unit is reported each day and is designated as a print subscription. For bundled products that provide access to the print product only on specified days and full digital access, one print subscription is reported for each day that a print copy is served and one digital subscription is reported for each remaining day of the week.

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The following table provides information regarding the digital platforms (excluding off-platform distribution) for certain Dow Jones segment news products:

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(1)Includes visits via websites and mobile apps from individual consumers and enterprise customers based on Adobe Analytics for the 12 months ended June 30, 2026.

(2)Includes aggregate unique individual consumer and enterprise customer users accessing websites and mobile apps based on Adobe Analytics for the 12 months ended June 30, 2026. See “Part I. Business—Explanatory Note Regarding Certain Metrics” for more information regarding the calculation of unique users.

Professional Information Products

The Dow Jones segment’s professional information products, which target enterprise customers, combine news and information with technology and tools that inform decisions and aid awareness, research, understanding and compliance. These products consist of its Dow Jones Risk & Compliance, Dow Jones Energy, Factiva and Dow Jones Newswires products. Specific products include the following:

•Dow Jones Risk & Compliance. Dow Jones Risk & Compliance products provide data and other solutions for customers focused on anti-bribery and corruption, anti-money laundering, counter terrorism financing, monitoring embargo and sanction lists, geopolitical and security risk intelligence and other risks and compliance requirements. Dow Jones’s solutions allow customers to screen their business transactions and third parties against its data to identify regulatory, corporate and reputational risk, and request follow-up reports to conduct further due diligence. Products include online risk data and negative news searching tools such as RiskCenter Financial Crime Search and Advanced Screening and Monitoring for bulk screening as well as RiskCenter Trade Compliance for trade finance-related checks on dual-use or other controlled goods. RiskCenter Third Party, a solution for supplier risk assessment, provides customers with automated risk and compliance checks via questionnaires and embedded scoring. Feed services include PEPs (politically exposed persons), Sanctions, Adverse Media and other Specialist Lists. Dow Jones produces customized Due Diligence Reports to assist its customers with regulatory compliance, including IntegrityCheck, an AI-enabled automated report, and also publishes Risk Journal, an intelligence solution delivering expert reporting, analysis and real time alerts on global risk and compliance issues.

•Dow Jones Energy. Dow Jones Energy provides pricing data, news, analysis, consulting, software and events relating to energy commodities, including crude oil, refined products, petrochemicals, natural gas liquids, coal, metals, renewables, Renewable Identification Numbers and carbon credits, as well as electric vehicle charging station data and pricing data, insights, analysis and forecasting for key base chemicals.

•Factiva. Factiva is a leading provider of global business content, built on an archive of important original and licensed publishing sources. Factiva offers content from over 33,000 global news and information sources from over 200 countries and territories and in 33 languages. This combination of business news and information, plus sophisticated tools and AI-powered solutions, helps professionals find, monitor, interpret and share essential information. As of June 30, 2026, there were approximately 852,000 activated Factiva users, including both individual and registered institutional accounts.

•Dow Jones Newswires. Dow Jones Newswires distributes real-time business news, information, analysis, commentary and statistical data to financial professionals and investors worldwide. It publishes, on average, over 17,000 news items each day, which are distributed via Dow Jones’s market data platform partners, including Bloomberg, London Stock Exchange Group and FactSet, as well as trading platforms and websites reaching hundreds of thousands of financial professionals. This content reaches millions of individual investors via customer portals and the intranets of brokerage and trading firms, as well as digital media publishers. Dow Jones Newswires is also used as an input for algorithms supporting automated trading.

The Dow Jones segment’s businesses compete with a wide range of media and information businesses, including digital media, print publications and information services.

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The Dow Jones segment’s news products, including its digital publications, newspapers, magazines, podcasts and video, compete for consumers and customers, audience and advertising with other local and national news and editorial content providers, web and app-based media, news aggregators, customized news feeds, search engines, AI platforms, products and services, blogs, magazines, investment tools, integrated workflow tools, social media sources, podcasts and event producers, as well as other media such as television, radio stations and outdoor displays. Competition for subscriptions and circulation is based on news and editorial content, data and analytics content in research tools, subscription pricing, the usefulness and popularity of its digital products, cover price and, from time to time, various promotions. Competition for advertising is based upon advertisers’ judgments as to the most effective media for their advertising budgets, which is in turn based upon various factors, including circulation volume, readership levels, audience demographics, advertising rates, advertising effectiveness and brand strength and reputation. As a result of rapidly changing and evolving technologies (including continued developments in AI and AI-enabled tools), distribution platforms and business models, and corresponding changes in consumer and customer behavior, the news products within the Dow Jones segment continue to face increasing competition for both circulation and advertising revenue, including from a variety of alternative news and information sources, programmatic advertising buying channels, AI platforms, products and services and other emerging technology platforms. Shifts in consumer and customer behavior require the Company to continually innovate and improve upon its own products, services and platforms in order to remain competitive. The Company believes that these changes will continue to pose opportunities and challenges, and that it is well positioned to leverage its global reach, brand recognition, premium products and proprietary technology to take advantage of the opportunities presented by these changes.

The Dow Jones segment’s professional information products that target enterprise customers compete with various information service providers, compliance data providers, global financial newswires and energy and commodities pricing and data providers, including Reuters News, RELX (including LexisNexis and ICIS), LSEG Risk Intelligence, S&P Global, DTN and Argus Media, as well as many other providers of news, information and compliance data. The professional information business also faces increasing competition from a variety of AI-powered platforms, products and services.

Digital Real Estate Services

The Company’s Digital Real Estate Services segment consists of its 62.0% interest in REA Group, a publicly-traded company listed on ASX (ASX: REA), and its 80% interest in Move. The remaining 20% interest in Move is held by REA Group.

REA Group

REA Group is a market-leading digital media business specializing in property, with operations focused on property and property-related advertising and services, as well as financial services.

Property and Property-Related Advertising and Services

REA Group advertises property and property-related services on its websites and mobile apps across Australia, including leading residential, commercial and share property websites realestate.com.au, realcommercial.com.au and Flatmates.com.au, as well as property research site property.com.au. For the year ended June 30, 2026, average monthly visits to realestate.com.au were 146.4 million, with 12.7 million people visiting each month on average, according to Ipsos iris data. Australians visited realestate.com.au 3.5 times more on average than the nearest competitor during the year ended June 30, 2026. Realcommercial.com.au had 2.9 million people visit each month on average for the year ended June 30, 2026, 2.7 times more than the nearest competitor, based on Ipsos iris data. REA Group’s new AI-powered conversational search and visualization capabilities provide a more personalized and immersive consumer experience designed to further enhance engagement with this large audience. REA Group’s other Australian property and property-related advertising and services include media display advertising for markets adjacent to property.

Realestate.com.au and realcommercial.com.au derive the majority of their revenue from their core property advertising listing products and monthly advertising subscriptions from real estate agents and property developers. Realestate.com.au and realcommercial.com.au offer a product hierarchy which enables real estate agents and property developers to upgrade to premium advertising products to increase listing prominence, supported by data and AI-driven insights and recommendations. They also offer a variety of targeted solutions, including media display advertising products. Flatmates.com.au derives the majority of its revenue from advertising listing products and membership fees. The media business offers unique advertising opportunities on REA Group’s websites to property developers and other relevant markets, including utilities and telecommunications, insurance, finance, automotive and retail.

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REA Group’s international operations consist primarily of its 78.0% interest in REA India, which operates Housing.com in India (News Corp holds a 22.0% interest in REA India), and its 61.5% interest in Planitar, which operates iGUIDE, a provider of AI-powered 3D virtual tour and interactive floor plan technology based in Canada. In July 2026, REA Group announced an agreement to sell REA India. REA Group’s other assets include a 20% interest in Move, as referenced above. REA Group’s businesses outside Australia derive the majority of their revenue from their property advertising listing products, monthly advertising subscriptions from real estate agents and property developers and technology-driven property services.

Financial Services

REA Group’s financial services business encompasses a digital property search and financing experience, mortgage broking services under its Mortgage Choice brand and residential property data services to the financial sector through its PropTrack data services business. REA Group continued to execute on its financial services strategy, with its broker network benefiting from continued investment in core platforms and AI training and tools to support broker productivity. The financial services business generates revenue primarily through commissions from lenders and monthly subscriptions for its data services.

Move

Move is a leading provider of digital real estate services in the U.S. Move primarily operates Realtor.com®, a premier real estate information, advertising and services platform, under a perpetual agreement and trademark license with the National Association of Realtors® (“NAR”). Through Realtor.com®, consumers have access to approximately 155 million properties across the U.S., including an extensive collection of homes, properties and apartments listed and displayed for sale or for rent and a large database of “off-market” properties. Realtor.com® and its related mobile apps display nearly 100% of all Multiple Listing Services (“MLS”)-listed, for-sale and rental properties in the U.S., which are primarily sourced directly from relationships with MLSs across the country. Realtor.com® also sources new construction and rental listing content from a variety of sources, including directly from homebuilders and landlords, as well as from listing aggregators. Approximately 94% of its for-sale listings are updated at least every 10 minutes, on average, with the remaining listings updated at least daily. Realtor.com®’s property listing content, comprehensive market news and data and advanced tools and technology, such as AI-powered natural language search and immersive, interactive visuals, attract a large and highly engaged consumer audience. Realtor.com® and its mobile sites had approximately 68 million average monthly unique users during the quarter ended June 30, 2026 based on internal data and methodologies, which may differ from those used by third parties or competitors. Monthly average visits for the quarter ended June 30, 2026 for Realtor.com®, according to Comscore data, were 297 million. See “Part I. Business—Explanatory Note Regarding Certain Metrics.”

Realtor.com® generates the majority of its revenues through the sale of lead generation and listing advertisement products, including its RealPRO SelectSM, ConnectionsSM Plus and Listing Toolkit products, as well as its referral-based services, including RealChoiceTM Selling. Lead generation and listing advertisement products allow real estate agents, brokers and homebuilders to enhance, prioritize and connect with consumers on for-sale property listings within the Realtor.com® website and mobile apps, elevate brand visibility and access sophisticated tools and analytics. Lead generation and listing advertisement products are typically sold on a subscription basis. The real estate referral-based business model, as well as the RealPRO SelectSM lead generation product, leverage Move’s proprietary technology and platform to connect real estate professionals and other service providers, such as lenders and insurance companies, to pre-vetted consumers who have submitted inquiries via the Realtor.com® website and mobile apps, as well as other online sources. The real estate referral-based services that connect real estate agents and brokers with these consumers typically generate fees upon completion of the associated real estate transaction, while the referral-based services that give other service providers, including lenders and insurance companies, access to the same highly qualified consumers are generally provided on a subscription basis. Realtor.com® also derives revenue from sales of non-listing advertisement, or Media, products to real estate, finance, insurance, home improvement and other professionals that enable those professionals to connect with Realtor.com®’s highly engaged and valuable consumer audience. Media products include sponsorships, display advertisements, text links, directories and other advertising and lead generation services. Non-listing advertisement pricing models include cost per thousand, cost per click, cost per unique user and subscription-based sponsorships of specific content areas or targeted geographies.

Move’s offerings also include the recently-launched Realtor.com®+TM, its collaborative home search platform that helps real estate professionals and consumers connect. Built together with MLSs, the platform was designed to elevate the search experience and strengthen MLS and professional value while offering buyers and sellers, in collaboration with their agents, a guided path from search to close. Realtor.com®+TM is expected to generate revenue from the sale of enhanced features and services to real estate professionals. Additionally, Move provides online tools and services to do-it-yourself landlords and tenants through Avail, a platform that improves the renting experience with online tools, educational content and world-class support. Avail employs a variety of pricing models, including subscription fees, as well as fixed- or variable-pricing models.

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The Company’s digital real estate services businesses operate in highly competitive markets that are evolving rapidly in response to new technologies, business models and practices, product and service offerings and changing consumer and customer preferences. The success of these businesses depends on their ability to provide products and services that are useful for consumers, real estate, mortgage and other related services professionals, homebuilders and landlords and attractive to their advertisers, their effective incorporation of new technologies, including AI, the breadth, depth and accuracy of information they provide and brand awareness and reputation. These businesses compete primarily with companies that provide real-estate focused technology, products and services in their respective geographic markets, including other real estate and property websites and apps in Australia and the U.S., and also with emerging AI-powered platforms, tools and services.

Book Publishing

The Company’s Book Publishing segment consists of HarperCollins, the second largest consumer book publisher in the world based on global revenue, with operations in 15 countries. HarperCollins publishes and distributes consumer books globally through print and digital formats. Its digital formats include e-books and downloadable and streaming audiobooks for a variety of mobile and home devices. HarperCollins owns more than 120 branded imprints, including Harper, William Morrow, Mariner, HarperCollins Children’s Books, Avon, Harlequin and Christian publishers Zondervan and Thomas Nelson.

HarperCollins publishes works by well-known authors such as Harper Lee, George Orwell, Agatha Christie and Zora Neale Hurston, as well as global author brands including J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Daniel Silva, Karin Slaughter and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It is home to many beloved children’s books and series, including Goodnight Moon, Curious George, Little Blue Truck and Pete the Cat. HarperCollins has a significant Christian publishing business, which includes the NIV Bible, Jesus Calling and author Max Lucado. HarperCollins’ print and digital global catalog includes more than 250,000 publications in different formats, in 16 languages, and it licenses rights for its authors’ works to be published in more than 50 languages around the world. HarperCollins publishes fiction and nonfiction, with a focus on general, children’s and religious content. HarperCollins also publishes titles for the equivalent of the K-12 educational market in the U.K. and India.

As of June 30, 2026, HarperCollins offered approximately 150,000 publications in digital formats, and nearly all of HarperCollins’ new titles, as well as the majority of its entire catalog, are available as e-books and digital audiobooks. Digital sales, comprising revenues generated through the sale of e-books and downloadable and streaming audiobooks, represented approximately 23% of global consumer revenues for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2026. During fiscal 2026, HarperCollins U.S. had 230 titles on the New York Times print and digital bestseller lists, with 37 titles hitting number one, including The Ballad of Falling Dragons by Sarah A. Parker, The Case for America by Bret Baier, The Gingerbread Bakery by Laurie Gilmore, The Humble Pie and The Smart Cookie by Jory John, How to Test Negative for Stupid by U.S. Senator John Kennedy, Hansel and Gretel by Stephen King, An Inside Job by Daniel Silva, Katabasis by R.F. Kuang, Little Blue Truck’s Valentine by Alice Schertle, A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park, The Pioneer Woman Cooks: The Essential Recipes by Ree Drummond, Nothing is Impossible with God by Shannon Bream, Watch Me and Release Me by Tahereh Mafi, Starside by Alex Aster, Stripped Down by Bunnie Xo, A Theory of Dreaming by Ava Reid, The Thorn Queen by Sasha Peyton Smith, Warriors: Changing Skies #2: Hidden Moon and Warriors: The Prophecies Begin #3 by Erin Hunter, We Are All Guilty Here by Karin Slaughter, Whistler by Ann Patchett and Wombat Waiting by Katherine Applegate.

HarperCollins derives its revenue from the sale and licensing of print and digital books to a customer base that includes global technology companies, traditional brick and mortar booksellers, wholesale clubs and discount stores, including Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble and Tesco, as well as from third-party distribution services. Revenues at the Book Publishing segment are significantly affected by the timing of releases and the number of HarperCollins’ books in the marketplace and are typically highest during the Company’s second fiscal quarter due to increased demand during the end-of-year holiday season in its main operating geographies.

The book publishing business operates in a highly competitive market that is quickly changing and continues to see technological innovations. HarperCollins competes with other large publishers, such as Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Livre and Macmillan, as well as with numerous smaller publishers, for the rights to works by well-known authors and public personalities; competition could also come from new entrants as barriers to entry in book publishing are low. In addition, HarperCollins competes for consumers with other media formats and sources such as movies, television programming, magazines and mobile content. The Company believes HarperCollins is well positioned in the evolving book publishing market with significant size and brand recognition across multiple categories and geographies.

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News Media

The Company’s News Media segment consists primarily of News Corp Australia, News UK and the New York Post. This segment also includes News Broadcasting (formerly Wireless Group), operator of talkSPORT, the leading sports radio network in the U.K., Virgin Radio and Talk in the U.K., which are available on multiple digital streaming platforms, and Australian News Channel, which operates the News24 network (formerly Sky News Australia), Australia’s 24-hour multi-channel, multi-platform news service. The News Media segment generates revenue primarily through circulation and subscription sales of its print and digital products, sales of print and digital advertising and licensing fees. Advertising revenues at the News Media segment are subject to seasonality, with revenues typically highest in the Company’s second fiscal quarter due to the end-of-year holiday season in its main operating geographies.

News Corp Australia

News Corp Australia is one of the leading news and information providers in Australia by readership, with both digital and print mastheads covering a national, regional and suburban footprint. Its digital mastheads are among the leading digital news properties in Australia based on monthly unique audience data and had approximately 981,000 aggregate digital closing subscribers as of June 30, 2026. In addition, its Monday to Friday, Saturday and Sunday, weekly and bi-weekly newspapers were read by 3.9 million Australians on average every week based on Roy Morgan data for the year ended March 31, 2026.

News Corp Australia’s news portfolio includes The Australian and The Weekend Australian (National), The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph (Sydney), Herald Sun and Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne), The Courier Mail and The Sunday Mail (Brisbane) and The Advertiser and Sunday Mail (Adelaide), as well as paid digital platforms for each. In addition, News Corp Australia owns leading regional publications in Geelong, Cairns, Townsville, Gold Coast and Darwin and a small number of community mastheads.

The following table provides information regarding key properties within News Corp Australia’s portfolio:

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(1)As of June 30, 2026, based on internal sources. See “Part I. Business—Explanatory Note Regarding Certain Metrics” for more information.

(2)Based on Roy Morgan Single Source Australia; Apr 2025 – Mar 2026; P14+ average monthly print readership data for the year ended March 31, 2026.

News Corp Australia’s broad portfolio of digital properties also includes news.com.au, one of the leading general interest sites in Australia that provides breaking news, finance, entertainment, lifestyle, technology and sports news and delivers an average monthly unique audience of approximately 12.0 million based on Ipsos iris monthly total audience ratings for the year ended June 30, 2026. In addition, News Corp Australia owns other premier digital properties such as Taste, a leading food and recipe site, CODE, a leading sports news site, and SuperCoach, a leading fantasy sports site, as well as various other digital media assets. As of June 30, 2026, News Corp Australia’s other assets included an approximate 29.1% interest in Hipages Group Holdings Ltd, which operates a leading on-demand home improvement services marketplace.

News UK

News UK publishes The Sun, The Sun on Sunday, The Times and The Sunday Times, which are leading newspapers in the U.K. that together accounted for approximately one-third of all national newspaper sales as of June 30, 2026. The Sun is the most read news brand in the U.K., and The Times and The Sunday Times are the most read national newspapers in the U.K. quality market. News UK also distributes content through its digital platforms, including its websites, thesun.co.uk, the-sun.com and thetimes.com, as well as mobile apps. Together, across print and digital, these brands reach approximately 60% of adult news readers in the U.K., or approximately 29 million people, based on the PAMCo data referenced below. News UK’s print products are printed at facilities in England and Scotland operated by its joint venture with DMG Media. In addition to its news businesses, News UK has assembled a portfolio of complementary ancillary product offerings, including betting and gaming products. The following table provides information regarding News UK’s news portfolio:

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(1)Based on Publishers Audience Measurement Company (“PAMCo”) H1 2026: Dec 2023 - Dec 2025 print data fused with Nov 2025 Ipsos iris data.

(2)As of June 30, 2026, based on internal sources and including subscribers to the Times Literary Supplement (“TLS”). Total subscribers across The Times and The Sunday Times, including TLS, as of June 30, 2026 was 773,000, including 681,000 closing digital subscribers. Total figures are de-duplicated for subscribers who receive a print product every day of the week. See “Part I. Business—Explanatory Note Regarding Certain Metrics” for more information.

(3)In addition to their print and digital-only products, The Times and The Sunday Times sell print and digital products bundled into one subscription. For bundled products that provide access to both print and digital products every day of the week, only one subscriber is reported as of June 30, 2026 and is designated as a print subscriber. For bundled products that provide access to the print product only on specified days and full digital access, a fraction equal to the number of days that a print copy is served relative to the total days in the week is reported as a print subscriber as of June 30, 2026 and a fraction equal to the number of remaining days of the week, when only a digital copy is served, relative to the total days in the week is reported as a digital subscriber.

(4)Includes aggregate unique users accessing thesun.co.uk, the-sun.com and other associated websites and mobile apps based on Meta Pixel data for the month ended June 30, 2026. See “Part I. Business—Explanatory Note Regarding Certain Metrics.”

New York Post

NYP Holdings is the publisher of the New York Post, the California Post, NYPost.com, CaliforniaPost.com, PageSix.com, Decider.com and related mobile apps and social media channels. The New York Post is the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the U.S., with a focus on coverage of the New York metropolitan area. The New York Post provides a variety of general interest content ranging from breaking news to business analysis, and is known in particular for its comprehensive sports coverage, famous headlines and its iconic Page Six section, an authority on celebrity news. The California Post, launched in January 2026, is a California-focused publication delivering news, entertainment, politics, culture, sports and business coverage with a distinctly California perspective. The print version of the New York Post is primarily distributed in New York, as well as throughout the Northeast and Florida, while the print version of the California Post is primarily distributed in California. For the three months ended June 30, 2026, average weekday circulation for the New York Post and California Post based on internal sources, including mobile app digital editions, was 494,896. In addition, the Post Digital Network, which includes NYPost.com, CaliforniaPost.com, PageSix.com and Decider.com, averaged approximately 86.5 million unique users per month during the quarter ended June 30, 2026 according to Google Analytics. See “Part I. Business—Explanatory Note Regarding Certain Metrics” for information regarding the calculation of unique users.

The News Media segment’s newspapers, magazines, digital publications, radio stations, broadcast and streaming channels and podcasts generally face competition from similar sources, and compete on similar bases, as the news products within the Dow Jones segment, particularly in their respective operating geographies. See “Item 1. Business – Business Overview – Dow Jones” above for further information.

Other

The Other segment includes the Company’s general corporate overhead expenses, strategy costs and costs related to the U.K. Newspaper Matters.

Governmental Regulation

General

Various aspects of the Company’s activities are subject to regulation in numerous jurisdictions around the world. The introduction of new laws and regulations in countries where the Company’s products and services are produced or distributed, and changes in existing laws and regulations in those countries or the interpretation or enforcement thereof, could have a negative impact on the Company’s interests.

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Benchmark Regulation

In connection with Dow Jones Energy’s OPIS business, the Company has established its own benchmark administrator, OPIS Benchmark Administration B.V. (the “Administrator”), organized in the Netherlands and authorized under the EU Benchmarks Regulation (EU) 2016/1011 (the “EU BMR”) by the Netherlands Authority for Financial Markets (the “AFM”). The Administrator oversees compliance with principles, policies and procedures governing conflicts of interest, complaints handling, input data, benchmark methodologies and other matters for any price assessments and benchmarks under its administration. The Administrator has published on its website policies and other materials governing such administration, including a benchmark statement as well as policies and procedures concerning methodologies, complaints, corrections and material changes.

The Administrator currently oversees two OPIS price assessments, which are not presently used as a reference for trading on a European Union (“E.U.”) exchange and consequently are not benchmarks within the meaning of the EU BMR and not subject to supervision by the AFM. The OPIS business has also aligned its oil and commodities price reporting, including the two price assessments currently administered by the Administrator, with the International Organisation of Securities Commission’s (“IOSCO’s”) Principles for Oil Reporting Agencies, which are intended to enhance the reliability of oil and commodity price assessments that are referenced in derivative contracts subject to regulation by IOSCO members.

Data Privacy and Security Regulation

In the course of its business, the Company collects, stores, uses, processes and transmits personal data from consumers, customers, employees and other sources. Certain of the Company’s information services businesses also use content that includes personal data from public and government records, other publicly available information and media. As a result, the Company and its activities are subject to laws and regulations governing the collection, use, processing, sharing and transfer, storage and retention of personal data, as well as multiple emerging laws and regulations pertaining to data security, which continue to evolve and have implications for a number of its business practices. In the U.S., a significant and growing number of state and local governments have expanded, enacted or proposed data privacy laws that govern the collection and use of personal data of their residents and establish or increase penalties and in some cases, afford private rights of action to individuals for failure to comply, with comprehensive privacy laws enacted in over 20 states, and all states have enacted legislation requiring businesses to provide notice to state agencies and to individuals whose personal information has been accessed or disclosed as a result of certain data breaches. For example, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (“CCPA”), establishes certain transparency rules, puts greater restrictions on how the Company can collect, use and disclose personal information of California residents and provides California residents with certain rights regarding their personal information, including rights to access, correct and delete their personal information and opt out of the sale or sharing of their personal information for targeted advertising. The CCPA provides for civil penalties for violations, brought through enforcement actions by the California Attorney General and California Privacy Protection Agency (“CPPA”), as well as a private right of action for data breaches of certain types of nonencrypted and nonredacted personal information. New CCPA regulations that took effect in January 2026 expand or enhance certain aspects of the existing rules and impose new requirements relating to cybersecurity audits, automated decision-making technology and data processing activities, which may further increase the Company’s compliance obligations. California’s privacy regulators have been active in enforcing the CCPA’s requirements, particularly with regard to ensuring individual rights relating to targeted advertising are offered and honored by entities effectively, and the CPPA has formed a Consortium of Privacy Regulators to coordinate enforcement activity with regulators in other states. Similar laws in many other states impose transparency and other obligations with respect to personal data of their respective residents and provide residents with similar rights. Certain of the Company’s websites, mobile apps and other online business activities are subject to laws and regulations governing the online privacy of children, including the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, which prohibits the collection of personal information online from children under age 13 without prior parental consent; the California Age Appropriate Design Code, which prescribes rules relating to the design of online services likely to be accessed by children under age 18 (“CAADC”); and the New York Child Data Protection Act, which imposes strict limitations on processing, sharing and selling the personal data of users under 18. Recent age verification legislation in some states requiring app stores to provide app developers with age information regarding their users may further expand age-related privacy obligations for the Company’s mobile apps and websites. U.S. Department of Justice data regulations have also significantly expanded restrictions on the access by and transfer of broadly defined categories of sensitive personal data and U.S. government data to “countries of concern,” which may impact certain of the Company’s current or potential partner, vendor, service provider and customer relationships.

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Similar laws and regulations apply in many of the other jurisdictions in which the Company operates, including the E.U., the U.K. and Australia. Several of the Company’s business units are subject to the E.U.’s General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (“GDPR”), which provides a uniform set of rules for personal data processing throughout the E.U., and the UK General Data Protection Regulation (“UK GDPR”). The GDPR and UK GDPR regulate the collection, processing, use, sharing and security of personal data, contain specific conditions for consent from data subjects, strengthen the rights of individuals, including the right to have personal data deleted upon request, continue to restrict the trans-border flow of personal data, require companies to conduct privacy impact assessments to evaluate data processing operations that are likely to result in a high risk to the rights and freedoms of individuals, require mandatory data breach reporting and notification, provide significant penalties for non-compliance (up to 20 million euros or 17.5 million pounds, as applicable, or 4% of an entity’s worldwide annual turnover in the preceding financial year, whichever is higher) and grant broad enforcement powers to the data protection authorities. The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (“DUA Act”) amended the UK GDPR and the UK’s Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 (“PECR”), including raising maximum fines under PECR to match the UK GDPR and increasing the potential financial exposure for breaches relating to direct marketing and online tracking. The changes set out in the DUA Act have created differences between the U.K. and E.U. legal regimes, further increasing compliance costs, and U.K. and E.U. regulators have increased enforcement activity, particularly relating to opt-in consent, cookie compliance and data security failures. In addition, the U.K. has adopted the UK Age Appropriate Design Code, which is similar to the CAADC discussed above.

The Company and some of its service providers rely on certain mechanisms, such as Standard Contractual Clauses, to address the E.U. and U.K. data protection requirements for transfers of data that continue to evolve and are often subject to uncertainty and legal challenges. The European Commission has adopted four sets of European Union Standard Contractual Clauses, which regulate the relationship between controllers, between processors and between controller and processor in accordance with the GDPR and international data transfers to a third country in the absence of an adequacy decision under the GDPR. The European Data Protection Board also adopted recommendations on measures that supplement data transfer tools to ensure compliance with the level of personal data protection required in Europe, including requirements for data exporters to assess the risks related to the transfer of personal data outside the European Economic Area and to implement, if necessary, additional contractual, organizational and technical measures such as encryption and pseudonymization. For data transfers subject to the UK GDPR, the International Data Transfer Agreement and the International Data Transfer Addendum to the European Union Standard Contractual Clauses have also been adopted. With respect to data transfers from the E.U. to the U.S., the European Commission adopted the adequacy decision for the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (the “Framework”), which permits personal data to flow from the E.U. to U.S. companies participating in the Framework. Similarly, the U.K. government adopted an adequacy decision for the U.S., the UK-US Data Bridge, which permits personal data to flow from the U.K. to U.S. companies participating in the Framework and the U.K. Extension. Data transfer mechanisms, however, continue to be challenged, and evolving requirements could cause the Company to incur additional costs, require it to change business practices or affect the manner in which it provides its services.

In Australia, the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (“AU Privacy Act”) and associated Australian Privacy Principles (“APPs”) impose additional requirements on organizations that handle personal data by, among other things, requiring organizations to take reasonable steps to ensure that overseas recipients do not breach the APPs in relation to personal data, placing restrictions on direct marketing practices and imposing mandatory data breach reporting. The Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024 implemented the first tranche of legislative amendments to the AU Privacy Act following the completion of a review of the country’s privacy regime initiated in 2020. These amendments include a mandate for the Australian privacy regulator to develop and register a privacy code for children by December 2026, a draft of which was released in March 2026, new transparency requirements for automated decision making that will apply from December 2026 and increased powers for the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, including the ability to directly issue infringement notices to non-compliant entities. However, the amendments did not address many of the recommendations made as part of the review, and the government has indicated it intends to implement subsequent amendments to introduce further reforms that will expand the scope of Australia’s current data privacy regime to more closely align with other international regimes such as the GDPR. Similar to other jurisdictions, Australian privacy regulators have increased enforcement activity.

Industry participants in the U.S., Europe and Australia have taken steps to increase compliance with relevant industry-level standards and practices, including the implementation of self-regulatory regimes for online behavioral advertising that impose obligations on participating companies, such as the Company, to give consumers a better understanding of advertisements that are customized based on their online behavior.

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The interpretation and application of data privacy and security laws are often uncertain and evolving in the U.S. and internationally. Moreover, data privacy and security laws vary between local, state, federal and international jurisdictions and may conflict from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Regulators in many jurisdictions have increased, and will likely continue to focus on, enforcement activity relating to data privacy and security. The Company continues to monitor pending legislation and regulatory initiatives to ascertain relevance, analyze impact and develop strategic direction surrounding regulatory trends and developments, including any changes required in the Company’s data privacy and security compliance programs.

U.K. Press-Related Regulation

In the U.K., the Press Recognition Panel (the “PRP”) is responsible for approving, overseeing and monitoring new press regulatory bodies. Certain legislation provides that publishers who are not members of a regulator approved by the PRP at the time of events giving rise to a claim may be liable for exemplary damages in certain cases where such damages were not previously awarded.

In September 2014, publications representing the majority of the industry in the U.K., including News UK, entered into binding contracts to form a self-regulatory organization, the Independent Press Standards Organisation, or IPSO. IPSO currently has no plans to apply for recognition from the PRP. IPSO oversees the Editors’ Code of Practice, requires members to implement appropriate internal governance processes and requires self-reporting of any failures, provides a complaints handling service, has the ability to require publications to print corrections and has the power to investigate serious or systemic breaches of the Editors’ Code of Practice and levy fines of up to £1 million. The burdens IPSO imposes on its print media members, including the Company’s newspaper publishing businesses in the U.K., may result in competitive disadvantages versus other forms of media and may increase the costs of regulatory compliance.

In addition to the regulations discussed above, the U.K.’s Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 empowers the Secretary of State for the U.K. to prevent foreign powers, including foreign states, state-owned investors and associated individuals, from gaining control, influence or greater influence over U.K. newspaper enterprises through the direct or indirect ownership of shares or voting control. Regulations adopted in 2025 introduced exceptions to this regime, including by permitting certain state-owned investors to hold, as passive investments, up to 15% of the shares or voting rights in a U.K. newspaper enterprise, subject to notification and other conditions, and extended the regime to online newspapers and periodical news magazines. These regulations may result in, among other things, reduced investment in the U.K. newspaper industry.

U.K. Radio Broadcasting and On-Demand Services Regulation

The Company’s radio stations in the U.K. and Ireland and its streaming channel Talk are subject to the U.K.’s Communications Act 2003 and the related Broadcasting Code (together the “U.K. Broadcast and On-Demand Regulations”), which are administered by the Office of Communications (“Ofcom”), the regulatory body for broadcasting and on-demand services in the U.K. The Company is required, among other things, to obtain and maintain licenses to operate its radio stations and to comply with the content standards and other requirements of the U.K. Broadcast and On-Demand Regulations. Although the Company expects its licenses will, where relevant, be renewed in the ordinary course upon their expiration, there can be no assurance that this will be the case. Non-compliance by the Company with the requirements associated with such licenses, the U.K. Broadcast and On-Demand Regulations or other applicable laws and regulations, could result in fines, additional license conditions, license revocation or other adverse regulatory actions.

Intellectual Property

The Company’s intellectual property assets include: copyrights in its digital and print newspapers, books and other content and technologies; trademarks in names and logos; trade names; domain names; proprietary databases and professionally curated information collections maintained and used in its information services and digital real estate services businesses; and licenses of intellectual property rights, including the trademark license for the Realtor.com® website address, as well as the REALTOR® trademark (the “NAR License”). In addition, its intellectual property assets include patents or patent applications for inventions related to its products, business methods and/or services, none of which are material to its financial condition or results of operations. The Company derives value and revenue from its intellectual property assets through, among other things, digital and print newspaper and magazine subscriptions and sales, the sale of subscriptions to its content and information services, content licensing, the operation of websites and other digital properties and the sale, distribution and/or licensing of print and digital books.

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The Company devotes significant resources to protecting its intellectual property assets in the U.S., the U.K., the E.U., Australia and other jurisdictions. To protect these assets, the Company relies upon a combination of copyright, trademark, unfair competition, patent, trade secret, database protection and other laws, contract provisions such as restrictions on access and use, license agreements that prohibit unauthorized reproduction or transfer of proprietary data and methodologies and technical measures. However, there can be no assurance of the degree to which these protections will be effective in any given case. For example, under current U.S. copyright law, the selection, coordination and arrangement of data may be protectable, but the underlying factual data may not be. Certain U.K. and Australian database protection laws may provide additional protections for the Company’s databases in those jurisdictions. Unauthorized use, including in the digital environment and as a result of advances in AI, presents a threat to revenues from products and services based on intellectual property. Policing unauthorized use of the Company’s products, services, content, proprietary databases and related intellectual property is often difficult, and the steps taken may not in every case prevent such use. For example, third parties, including AI developers, may scrape, crawl or otherwise exploit the Company’s content, proprietary databases and other intellectual property without authorization. The Company seeks to prevent such unauthorized exploitation through paywalls, bot management and AI crawler blocking tools, opt-out directives and other means, but these measures may not be effective, particularly if AI operators do not adhere to the restrictions. The Company also seeks to limit unauthorized use of its intellectual property by pursuing legal remedies to enforce its intellectual property rights, advocating for appropriate technical standards and legal frameworks, on its own and through industry groups, and enhancing public awareness of the meaning and value of intellectual property and intellectual property laws. However, the application of existing laws and regulations to new technologies, including AI, continues to be unsettled and is changing rapidly, and laws and regulations differ from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Effective intellectual property protection may also be either unavailable or limited in certain foreign territories. Therefore, the Company engages in efforts to strengthen and update intellectual property protection around the world, including efforts to support the appropriate evolution, and effective enforcement, of intellectual property laws and remedies for infringement.

Third parties may challenge the validity or scope of the Company’s intellectual property from time to time and claim the protection of legal defenses and/or exceptions to intellectual property laws, and such challenges could result in the limitation or loss of intellectual property rights. Irrespective of their validity, such claims may result in substantial costs and diversion of resources that could have an adverse effect on the Company’s operations.

Raw Materials

As a major publisher of newspapers, magazines and books, the Company utilizes substantial quantities of various types of paper. In order to obtain the best available prices, substantially all of the Company’s paper purchasing is done on a regional, volume purchase basis, and draws upon major paper manufacturing countries around the world. The Company believes that under present market conditions, its sources of paper supply used in its publishing activities are adequate.

Human Capital

News Corp’s workforce is critical to the creation and delivery of its premium, trusted content and other products and services and a key contributor to the success of the Company. The Company’s human capital management strategy is designed to attract, develop, retain and engage top talent with the experience, perspectives, skills and capabilities needed to achieve the Company’s business objectives, and its workforce capabilities have continued to evolve alongside its strategic priorities. Key focus areas of the Company’s human capital management strategy are described below, and additional information can be found in its Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) Report, available on the Company’s website (which is not incorporated by reference herein). The Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors is responsible for assisting the Board in reviewing and assessing the Company’s risks, opportunities, strategies and policies related to human capital management.

As of June 30, 2026, the Company had approximately 21,700 employees, of whom approximately 7,900 were located in the U.S., 3,900 were located in the U.K. and 5,600 were located in Australia. Of the Company’s employees, approximately 3,300 were represented by various employee unions. The contracts with such unions will expire at various times over the next several years. The Company believes its current relationships with employees are generally good.

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Culture and Values

The delivery of quality news, information and entertainment to customers and audiences is a passionate, principled and purposeful enterprise. The Company believes people around the globe turn to News Corp because they trust its dedication to those values and to conducting business with integrity. The Company is mindful that one of its greatest assets is its reputation, and ethical conduct is part of the vision, strategy and fabric of the Company. The Company has established a Compliance Steering Committee that oversees the Company’s global compliance-related policies, protocols and guidance and reports directly to the Board of Directors through the Audit Committee. Performance on ethics and compliance is evaluated in determining whether any reduction to the payout of incentive compensation for executive officers is warranted. In addition, all employees are required to regularly complete training on, and affirm compliance with, News Corp’s Standards of Business Conduct, which set forth the Company’s policy to act respectfully in the workplace, do business ethically and comply with all applicable laws and regulations, and are designed to promote a culture of compliance and legal and ethical awareness throughout the Company. The Standards of Business Conduct are reviewed regularly and approved by the Board of Directors and are complemented by business-unit and topic-specific policies and trainings, including with respect to workplace conduct, conflicts of interest, anti-corruption and anti-bribery and insider trading.

Health, Safety, Security and Wellbeing

The health, safety, security and wellbeing of the Company’s employees is a top priority of the Company’s human capital management strategy. The Company’s programs and policies are benchmarked against industry best practices and are designed to be dynamic and account for the changing risks and circumstances facing its employees. Employee wellbeing initiatives engage and support employees with targeted programs for mental and physical health. The Company’s health and safety management systems are designed to comply with local and international environmental, health and safety standards and regulatory requirements. Its physical security infrastructure is designed to address risks related to the workplace, employee travel, business operations, corporate events and the unique requirements of the newsroom and news gathering operations, including through its Global Security Operations Center, which supports key international assignments and incident management. For example, the Company provides safety and security support, around-the-clock monitoring and the application of dynamic risk assessments and oversight for its staff and partners in high-risk areas, enabling the continuation of critical reporting from those regions.

Compensation and Benefits

News Corp’s compensation and benefits programs, which vary based on business unit and geographic location, are focused on attracting, retaining and motivating its employees and reflecting the needs and priorities of its global workforce. In addition to competitive salaries, the Company and its businesses have established short- and long-term incentive programs designed to motivate and reward performance against key business objectives and facilitate retention. News Corp also provides a range of retirement and other benefit options designed to meet the needs of its employees, including healthcare benefits and other programs to address physical, mental and emotional well-being, tax-advantaged savings vehicles, financial education, life and disability insurance, paid time off, flexible work arrangements, generous parental leave policies and other caregiving support and a company match for charitable donations and volunteer time.

Training, Development and Engagement

News Corp invests in training and development programs designed to enable its employees to develop the skills and leadership abilities necessary to execute on the Company’s strategy and engage and retain top talent. The Company provides compelling on-the-job learning experiences for its people, encouraging employees to test new ideas and expand their capabilities. It offers workshops, webinars and classes on a variety of topics, access to next generation learning platforms, job-specific training and other continuing education resources. The Company further supports and develops its employees through career planning resources and programs and internal career mobility opportunities that help build and strengthen employee versatility and leadership skills. In addition, the Company and its businesses have implemented programs to support regular performance and talent reviews for employees to highlight their strengths and identify the skills and growth necessary to advance their careers. These programs help the Company develop and invest in the next generation of leadership and represent an important component of its talent pipeline strategy. The Company and its businesses periodically conduct employee engagement surveys or focus groups to better understand the experience, concerns and sentiments of employees and to assess progress on Company workforce initiatives.

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Explanatory Note Regarding Certain Metrics

Certain of the Company’s metrics such as subscriptions and unique users are calculated using third-party or internal company data that have not been independently verified. While these numbers are based on what the Company believes to be reasonable calculations for the applicable period of measurement, there are inherent challenges in measuring such information. The Company’s calculation of certain metrics may also differ from estimates published by third parties or from similarly-titled metrics of its competitors due to differences in methodology, and the Company’s methodologies may be updated from time to time. Additional information regarding the calculation of certain metrics is provided below.

Unique Users

For purposes of this Annual Report, unique users and unique visitors, as applicable, are counted only the first time an individual accesses a product’s website using a browser during a calendar month and the first time an individual accesses a product’s mobile app using a mobile device during a calendar month. If the user accesses more than one of a product’s desktop websites, mobile websites and/or mobile apps, the first access to each such website or app is counted as a separate unique user. Users accessing a product’s websites through different browsers, users who clear their browser cache at any time and users who access a product’s websites and apps through different devices are also counted as separate unique users. For a group of products such as WSJDN, a user accessing different products within the group is counted as a separate unique user for each product accessed.

Total Digital Revenues

For purposes of this Annual Report, the Company defines total digital revenues as the sum of consolidated Digital Real Estate Services segment revenues, digital advertising revenues, digital circulation and subscription revenues, revenues from digital book sales and other miscellaneous digital revenue streams.