News Corporation Announces Additional Senior Appointments for Proposed Publishing Company
01 Febbraio 2013 - 4:15PM
Business Wire
News Corporation (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) today
announced two senior management appointments for the New News
Corporation, the proposed global publishing entity to be formed as
part of the Company’s intended separation into two independent,
publicly traded companies.
Anoushka Healy, currently Group Managing Editor of The
Times and Sunday Times in London, has been named Chief Strategy
Officer and will help shape the new News Corporation and fashion
its strategic direction. She will also be responsible for sharing
best practices across the organization, implementing new projects
and supporting talent around the company’s businesses.
William Lewis has been appointed Chief Creative Officer.
He will be responsible for the new company’s creative strategy and
will have a central role in developing new commercial
opportunities, including product launches, digital initiatives and
acquisitions. Mr. Lewis joined News Corporation as Group General
Manager of News International in London in September 2010 and
became an executive member of News Corporation’s Management and
Standards Committee in July 2011.
Both Ms. Healy and Mr. Lewis will be based in New York and
report to Robert Thomson, Chief Executive Officer of New News
Corporation.
“Will and Anoushka will be at the very heart of the new company,
expanding our digital and global reach and building new
businesses,” said Mr. Thomson. “Anoushka is a fully certified
organizational genius and master of motivation. Will has an innate
understanding of audiences and how their needs are changing. He is
as diligent as he is digital.”
About Ms. Healy
Anoushka Healy currently serves as Group Managing Editor of The
Times and Sunday Times in London, a role she has held since May
2011. Prior to this role, she was Managing Editor for The Times,
and has previously served as Assistant Editor for Strategy &
Development, working on new product launches and redesigns for the
newspaper. Ms. Healy joined The Times in November 2002 as the
Editorial Communications Director.
Prior to joining The Times, she was Head of Corporate
Communications at the Financial Times for seven years where, among
other projects, she worked on the launch of the Weekend FT, the
launch of the FT's US edition and the launch of FT.com.
About Mr. Lewis
Since July 2011, Mr. Lewis has been an executive member of News
Corporation’s Management and Standards Committee, and he will
remain a member of the MSC. He joined News International as Group
General Manager in September 2010.
Mr. Lewis was previously Editor-in-Chief of Telegraph Media
Group, which he joined in 2005. Under his editorship, the Daily
Telegraph was named Newspaper of the Year, and Mr. Lewis named
Journalist of the Year, in the British Press Awards following the
paper’s role in exposing the parliamentary expenses scandal. Mr.
Lewis led the team that designed and created the Daily Telegraph’s
acclaimed newsroom, organising the paper’s move from its previous
premises.
From 2002 until his move to the Daily Telegraph, Mr. Lewis was
business editor of the Sunday Times. He previously worked at the
Financial Times in a number of senior roles, including news editor
and New York-based mergers and acquisitions correspondent.
News Corporation Separation
On June 28, 2012, News Corporation announced that it intends to
pursue the separation of its publishing and its media and
entertainment businesses into two distinct publicly traded
companies. The global publishing company that would be created
through the proposed transaction would consist of the Company’s
publishing businesses, its education division and other Australian
assets. The global media and entertainment company would consist of
the Company’s cable and television assets, filmed entertainment,
and direct satellite broadcasting businesses. Following the
separation, each company would maintain two classes of common
stock: Class A Common and Class B Common Voting Shares. The
separation is expected to be completed in approximately one year
from the date of announcement. In addition to final approval from
the Board of Directors and stockholder approval of certain
amendments to the Company’s Restated Certificate of Incorporation,
the completion of the separation will be subject to receipt of
regulatory approvals, opinions from tax counsel and favorable
rulings from certain tax jurisdictions regarding the tax-free
nature of the transaction to the Company and to its stockholders,
further due diligence as appropriate, the execution of certain
agreements relating to the distribution, and the filing and
effectiveness of appropriate filings with the SEC. On December 21,
2012, New Newscorp LLC filed an initial Form 10 registration
statement and News Corporation filed a preliminary proxy statement
with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with the
separation. The Company has also applied for certain regulatory
approvals and tax rulings required to enable the separation to be
completed as described. There can be no assurances given that the
separation of the Company's businesses as described will occur.
About News Corporation
News Corporation (NASDAQ: NWS, NWSA; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) had total
assets as of September 30, 2012 of approximately US$60 billion and
total annual revenues of approximately US$34 billion. News
Corporation is a diversified global media company with operations
in six industry segments: cable network programming; filmed
entertainment; television; direct broadcast satellite television;
publishing; and other. The activities of News Corporation are
conducted principally in the United States, Continental Europe, the
United Kingdom, Australia, Asia and Latin America.
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