News Corporation (NWS)
News, books and property portals in three countries. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending June 30, 2026, filed August 7, 2026. Ranked 1 of the 14 Communication Services companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
31%
End of 2028
64%
Employees, annual report
21,700
Leading staffing pattern
Newspaper, Periodical, Book, and Directory Publishers
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now31%
- End of 202755%
- End of 202864%
- End of 203067%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 33%
- Becomes checking a model's work 49%
- Handed over with lighter checks 14%
A publisher whose filing states its total and its counts by country and union but nothing by segment, so the publishing and portal patterns follow segment revenue.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 31% now, 55% at the end of 2027, 64% at the end of 2028, 67% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 67% desk work, 23% people work and 10% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 33% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 49% becomes checking a model's work and 14% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
21,700 employees as of June 30, 2026 (stated). Approximately 7,900 of about 21,700 employees are in the U.S., 3,900 in the U.K. and 5,600 in Australia.
The filing: “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.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Newspaper, Periodical, Book, and Directory Publishers | 80% | By (c): the Dow Jones (28% of fiscal 2026 revenue), Book Publishing (25%) and News and Information Services (25%) segments are newspapers, business information and books, publishing in this group; the filing counts employees by country, not by segment, and the pattern applies abroad because the work is the same (rule 7). |
| Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services | 20% | By (c): the Digital Real Estate Services segment (22% of fiscal 2026 revenue) runs property listing portals in Australia and the United States, other information services in this group; read a little below its revenue share since portals employ fewer people for their revenue than newsrooms. |
What the filing says about the workforce: About 21,700 employees: 7,900 in the U.S., 3,900 in the U.K., 5,600 in Australia; approximately 3,300 are represented by employee unions, about 15%; the filing describes newsroom security operations including a Global Security Operations Center.
What the filing says about AI
70 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing describes AI as a business line and a tool: licensing its content to large technology companies and AI-focused platforms, including Dow Jones content for AI applications, and an AI-enabled due diligence report, IntegrityCheck, among Dow Jones's compliance products.
- “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...”
- “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.”
- “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.”
- “This combination of business news and information, plus sophisticated tools and AI-powered solutions, helps professionals find, monitor, interpret and share essential information.”
- “The Dow Jones segment's businesses compete with a wide range of media and information businesses, including digital media, print publications and information services. 4 Table of Contents 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...”
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 202313median 1
- Fiscal 202424median 4
- Fiscal 202549median 10
- Fiscal 202670
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-30 | 21,700 | 2026-08-07 | 10-K |
| 2025-06-30 | 22,300 | 2025-08-06 | 10-K |
| 2024-06-30 | 23,900 | 2024-08-13 | 10-K |
| 2023-06-30 | 25,000 | 2023-08-15 | 10-K |
| 2022-06-30 | 25,500 | 2022-08-12 | 10-K |
| 2021-06-30 | 24,000 | 2021-08-10 | 10-K |
| 2020-06-30 | 23,500 | 2020-08-11 | 10-K |
| 2019-06-30 | 28,000 | 2019-08-13 | 10-K |
| 2018-06-30 | 28,000 | 2018-08-15 | 10-K |
| 2017-06-30 | 26,000 | 2017-08-14 | 10-K |
| 2016-06-30 | 24,000 | 2016-08-12 | 10-K |
| 2015-06-30 | 25,000 | 2015-08-13 | 10-K |
| 2014-06-30 | 22,000 | 2014-08-14 | 10-K |
| 2013-06-30 | 24,000 | 2013-09-20 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- Pattern shares rest on segment revenue and description (c); the filing counts employees by country, not by segment.
- About 64% of employees are outside the United States; the patterns apply abroad because the work is the same (rule 7).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001564708-26-000175, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of News Corporation's working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 31% now and 64% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce News Corporation's own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does News Corporation employ?
- 21,700 as of June 30, 2026, as its annual report for the period ending June 30, 2026 states. About 36% in the U.S.
- What kinds of work make up News Corporation's workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Newspaper, Periodical, Book, and Directory Publishers; by those patterns the work is about 67% desk work, 23% people work and 10% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does News Corporation's annual report say about AI?
- 70 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2026 name it in 0, 0, 13, 24, 49 and 70 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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