RNS Number:3708H
News Corporation Ld
11 February 2003


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For Immediate Release                      Contact: Andrew Butcher 212-852-7070




News Corporation Announces Changes To Composition Of Board Committees

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NEW YORK, NY, February 11, 2003 - News Corporation today announced that its
Board of Directors has reconstituted its Committees in accordance with recent
corporate governance proposals.

As announced at the Annual General Meeting last October, Board member Stanley S.
Shuman, who has a business relationship with News Corporation in his role as
Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Allen and Company, has
resigned from the Audit Committee. Graham Kraehe will serve as chairman of the
Audit Committee, while Aatos Erkko, Andrew S.B. Knight and Thomas J. Perkins
will continue to serve as Committee members.

The newly constituted Nominating and Corporate Governance Oversight Committee
will be chaired by Geoffrey C. Bible, with Kenneth E. Cowley and Roderick I.
Eddington serving as Committee members. Mr. Bible, as chairman of the Committee,
will also chair regularly scheduled sessions of non-management directors.

The newly constituted Compensation Committee will be chaired by Mr. Knight. Mr.
Erkko and Mr. Perkins will serve as members of the Compensation Committee. The
Compensation Committee has assumed the responsibilities of the former Share
Option Committee.

News Corporation (NYSE: NWS, NWS/A; ASX: NCP, NCPDP) had total assets as of
September 30, 2002 of approximately US$40 billion and total annual revenues of
approximately US$16 billion. News Corporation's diversified global operations in
the United States, Canada, continental Europe, the United Kingdom, Australia,
Latin America and the Pacific Basin include the production of motion pictures
and television programming; television, satellite and cable broadcasting; the
publication of newspapers, magazines and books; the production and distribution
of promotional and advertising products and services; the development of digital
broadcasting; the development of conditional access and subscriber management
systems; and the creation and distribution of popular on-line programming.

For more information about News Corporation, please visit www.newscorp.com.




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