General Counsel · NEWS CORP (NWSA)

David Pitofsky

A named executive officer of NEWS in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2021 to FY2025. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$6,217,494

FY2024: $4,974,571

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed October 8, 2025 (DEF 14A).

David Pitofsky compensation by year

NEWS Summary Compensation Table · all 5 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as NEWS reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$1,100,000$1,223,077$1,260,000$1,310,400$1,400,000
Bonus$0$0$0$0$0
Stock awards$1,692,062$1,747,498$1,874,244$1,947,167$2,065,088
Option awards$0$0$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$1,800,000$1,852,000$1,325,520$1,572,480$2,589,333
Pension and deferred compensation$0$0$0$0$0
All other$101,575$164,529$171,222$144,524$163,073
Total$4,693,637$4,987,104$4,630,986$4,974,571$6,217,494

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 October 8, 2025, accession 0001140361-25-037696, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

$4.7M
$5.0M
$4.6M
$5.0M
$6.2M
FY21
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2024 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU122,272$3,371,039—
RSU107,488$2,963,444—

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in NEWS CORP's FY2024 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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How this record is built

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