-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, O/WAHWuAlJo6saV6O2YHsvqdAj2M4K6PueHf/AHNgwnNEl6oCHt+Q0nwvBoAp19l Aetzr7E+C+XyLQ2GjsNVeQ== 0001193125-09-157783.txt : 20090914 0001193125-09-157783.hdr.sgml : 20090914 20090729110421 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193125-09-157783 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: CORRESP PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 3 FILED AS OF DATE: 20090729 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: NEWS CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001308161 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: NEWSPAPERS: PUBLISHING OR PUBLISHING & PRINTING [2711] IRS NUMBER: 260075658 FISCAL YEAR END: 0630 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1211 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS CITY: NEW YORK STATE: NY ZIP: 10036 BUSINESS PHONE: 212-852-7000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1211 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS CITY: NEW YORK STATE: NY ZIP: 10036 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: NEWS CORPORATION, INC. DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20041108 CORRESP 1 filename1.htm Supplemental Response Letter
LOGO         LOGO

July 29, 2009

CORRESPONDENCE FILED VIA EDGAR

AND OVERNIGHT DELIVERY

Mr. Daniel Morris

Attorney-Advisor

Securities and Exchange Commission

100 F Street, N.E.

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

  Re:    News Corporation
     Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2008
     Filed August 13, 2008
     File No. 001-32352
     Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A
     Filed August 19, 2008
     File No. 001-32352

Dear Mr. Morris:

Pursuant to our telephone conversations with the Staff, set forth below is the supplemental response of News Corporation (the “Company”) to comment #3 from the Staff’s letter of comment dated June 12, 2009 relating to the Company’s definitive proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 19, 2008. This response amends our response to comment #3 and shall supersede our response #3 set forth in our letters dated June 16, 2009 and June 22, 2009. For your convenience, we have repeated comment #3 set forth in the Staff’s comment letter.

Schedule 14A

 

  3.

We note that the form of letter agreement applies only to awards or grants of restricted shares for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2009. Please tell us whether you intend to reinstate the matching award program, or a similar program, in subsequent fiscal periods. If so, please confirm that you will disclose in future filings the performance targets related to any

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such program to the extent achievement of the targets would affect the compensation payable to your named executive officers.

The form of letter agreement pertains only to awards for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2009 because the term of Mr. DeVoe’s employment agreement expires in November 2009. The Company confirms that it will disclose in future filings the performance targets related to the Non-NEO Equity Award Program, or a similar program, to the extent achievement of the targets or failure to achieve the targets is tied to the compensation payable to the Company’s named executive officers. The foregoing undertaking shall not be interpreted to require disclosure of such performance targets in the event that discretionary awards are made to the Company’s named executive officers.

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Should you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to contact the undersigned at (212) 918-8270.

 

  Sincerely,
  /s/ Amy Bowerman Freed
 

Amy Bowerman Freed

 

Hogan & Hartson LLP

 

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