General Counsel · NEWS CORP (NWS)

David Pitofsky

A named executive officer of NEWS in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2016 to FY2025. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

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Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$6,217,494

FY2024: $4,974,571

3rd of 6 named executive officers at News by FY2025 total.

6 named officers on file for NEWS, FY2025

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Compensation figures as of the proxy filed September 23, 2026 (DEF 14A).

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David Pitofsky compensation by year

NEWS Summary Compensation Table · all 11 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as NEWS reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2016FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026
Salary$968,269$950,000$1,000,000$1,100,000$1,100,000$1,100,000$1,223,077$1,260,000$1,310,400$1,400,000$1,400,000
Bonus$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
Stock awards$657,575$1,073,049$910,178$1,135,127$1,638,382$1,692,062$1,747,498$1,874,244$1,947,167$2,065,088$2,333,322
Option awards$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$1,000,000$750,000$1,124,400$1,100,000$750,000$1,800,000$1,852,000$1,325,520$1,572,480$2,589,333$2,400,000
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0$0
All other$90,619$104,194$95,961$121,940$123,421$101,575$164,529$171,222$144,524$163,073$219,871
Total$2,716,463$2,877,243$3,130,539$3,457,067$3,611,803$4,693,637$4,987,104$4,630,986$4,974,571$6,217,494$6,353,193

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: NEWS CORP DEF 14A filed September 23, 2026, accession 0001104659-26-109969, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

How this page was built: the NEWS CORP filed document, accession 0001104659-26-109969. Every figure is read from that document and cited to the page and table it appears in. Filed September 23, 2026.

$2.7M
$2.9M
$3.1M
$3.5M
$3.6M
$4.7M
$5.0M
$4.6M
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Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2026 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU166,130$4,221,363—
RSU126,304$3,209,385—

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in NEWS CORP's FY2026 proxy; value at the fiscal year-end close, as the company printed it.

NEWS’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Robert ThomsonChief Executive Officer$20,623,729
Susan PanuccioFormer Chief Financial Officer$8,300,586
David Pitofsky · this pageGeneral Counsel$6,217,494
Lavanya ChandrashekarChief Financial Officer$5,465,018
David KlineFormer Chief Technology Officer$3,497,903
Ruth AllenChief Human Resources Officer$2,957,269

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