Mark Williams Appointed CFO, Europe and Asia, News Corporation

Mark Williams has today been appointed Chief Financial Officer, Europe and Asia, News Corporation, reporting to James Murdoch. Mark is currently Chief Operating Officer at Sky Italia and will take up his new position at the end of March. Stephen Daintith, currently Chief Financial Officer of News International Ltd, is moving to New York to take up the position of Chief Financial Officer of Dow Jones. Mark will take over Stephen Daintith's duties as CFO of News International as well as acting as CFO across News Corporation’s operations in Europe and Asia supporting Sky Italia, STAR TV and News Corp Europe as these businesses continue to grow and develop. Mark will be based in London. James Murdoch said: "I am delighted that Mark Williams will be joining us in London. He has been a key player in the team which has taken Sky Italia from strength to strength and I look forward to working with him in this new wider role.” Mark Williams said: "I’m extremely excited to be taking on this new position working for James across the breadth of News Corp activities throughout Europe and Asia, ranging from operations in Eastern Europe to the already very successful UK newspaper business. At the same time I am very proud of the team at Sky Italia and look forward to remaining involved as a member of the Board.” Mark Williams joined News Corporation in 1996 as CFO of the Australian pay TV operation, FOXTEL, and in 2000 assumed CFO responsibility for News Corporation’s newspaper and other interests throughout Australia and New Zealand. In January 2003, he was appointed Chief Operating Officer of Sky Italia, based in Milan, and has overseen the rapid and very successful development of that business over the last 5 years. Prior to News Corp Mark worked in CFO roles in the consumer goods industry, based in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore. Mark will remain as a non-executive director on the Board of Sky Italia. Photograph of Mark Williams available. Please call +44 20 7782 6019 News Corporation (NYSE: NWS, NWS.A; ASX: NWS, NWSLV) had total assets as of September 30, 2007 of approximately US$64 billion and total annual revenues of approximately US$30 billion. News Corporation is a diversified entertainment company with operations in eight industry segments: filmed entertainment; television; cable network programming; direct broadcast satellite television; magazines and inserts; newspapers; book publishing; and other. The activities of News Corporation are conducted principally in the United States, Continental Europe, the United Kingdom, Australia, Asia and the Pacific Basin. News International Limited is the main UK subsidiary of the global media company News Corporation. Times Newspapers Ltd (TNL) publishes The Times and The Sunday Times and News Group Newspapers Limited (NGN) publishes The Sun and News of the World. TNL and NGN are part of the News International group.