It was mainly a holding company for News Limited and has expanded worldwide and is now known if not as News corp then for its newspapers or television companies such as The Sun and Sky.
It operates in many different types of media. For example;
Books
Cable Programming
Films
Magazines
Satalite Television
Sporting Events
Television
Websites
Some of the companies it owns include;
33 magazines(Inside Out)
2 Book companies (Zondervan)
63 Newspapers (The Sun)
12 T.V and film companies (20th Century Fox)
3 part shares in sports teams in Australia
News corp was in the news this summer because it was hacking mobile phones of important people so that they will get the stories first. But they were discovered and as it was illegal to hack phones, the newspaper (News Of The World) was shut down and does not operate anymore in way of an apology to all those who it affected.
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