Chief Financial Officer · NEWS CORP (NWSA)

Lavanya Chandrashekar

FY2025 is the first fiscal year CompBrief holds for Lavanya Chandrashekar as a named executive officer of NEWS; the record below is that year, complete. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$5,465,018

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

Lavanya Chandrashekar compensation by year

NEWS Summary Compensation Table · the one fiscal year held
In US dollars, as NEWS reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2025
Salary$689,231
Bonus$0
Stock awards$2,601,721
Option awards$0
Non-equity incentive$1,641,759
Pension and deferred compensation$0
All other$532,307
Total$5,465,018

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.

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments NEWS discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Voluntary resignation$0$0$0$0
Resignation for good reason, no change in control$2,800,000$557,777$31,779$9,625,820
Involuntary termination without cause$2,800,000$557,777$31,779$9,625,820
Involuntary for cause$0$0$0$0
Disability$0$836,665$0$3,336,665
Death$1,400,000$836,665$0$4,736,665

Per the Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control table in NEWS CORP's FY2025 proxy. Estimates as the company printed them; a dash means it printed no figure.

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 PitofskyGeneral Counsel$6,217,494
Lavanya Chandrashekar · this pageChief 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

Every figure on this page is one figure from a public SEC filing, printed as the filing states it and cited to the document. Compensation totals are NEWS's own disclosed totals, not summed by Velarion. Insider transactions are read from Form 4 filings and cover every line filed since the most recent proxy. Nothing is estimated by Velarion; where the company does not disclose a value the cell reads "—", and a section appears only where the company discloses the data. Corrections: records@velarion.ai.

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