Friday, November 23, 2012

Rupert Murdoch sheds some News Corp shares

(Reuters) - News Corp Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch sold about $10 million of the company's Class A shares on November 20, according to a regulatory filing on Wednesday.

The sale of 418,631 Class A shares represent about 5 percent of Murdoch and his family's total Class A.

Murdoch and his family control News Corp through their ownership of about 40 percent of Class B voting shares.

Shares of News Corp, home to 20th Century Fox, Fox TV stations and the Wall Street Journal, have been on a tear up almost 50 percent year over year.

The company is preparing to separate its publishing and entertainment assets next year in a move to appease shareholders who have been pressing the company to shed its troubled newspaper business.

The stock closed down 0.7 percent at $23.82 on Wednesday.

(Reporting By Jennifer Saba in New York; Editing by David Gregorio)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/rupert-murdoch-sheds-news-corp-shares-233259434--finance.html

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