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57
NEWS CORPORATION CONCISE REPORT 2004
Directors’ Report
(continued)
for the year ended 30 June, 2004
Directors and Senior Executives’ Remuneration (Continued)
The table below sets out the primary benefit, which is fees, and other amounts paid by the Group to Non-executive
Directors of the Group for the year ended 30 June, 2004:
Fees (5) Pension (6) Equity/
Directors: Options (7)
US$000 US$000 US$000
Non-executive
P Barnes (2) 29 2
G C Bible 136 6
K E Cowley AO 131 6
V Dinh (2) 26
R I Eddington 137 6
J A M Errko KBE (3) 43 6
A S B Knight 170 6
G J Kraehe 125 8 6
T J Perkins 146 6
S S Shuman 150 6
J L Thornton (4)
The table below sets out the primary benefits, which includes salaries and bonuses, and other amounts paid by the Group to
Executive Directors and the five officers receiving the highest emoluments, of the Group, for the year ended 30 June, 2004:
Salary Bonuses Pension Equity/ Other Number of
Directors: (1) (8) Options Options
(7) Granted in
Current
Year (8)
US$000 US$000 US$000 US$000 US$000
Executive
K R Murdoch AC 4,509 12,500 3,502 145
C Carey (9) 818 1,500 660 6 2,319
P Chernin 8,296 8,894 434 578 380
D F DeVoe 2,292 2,797 754 277 20
L K Murdoch 1,800 2,335 206 196 17
J R Murdoch (10) 346 750 17 127
A M Siskind 2,142 1,747 664 277 5
Officers: (11)
R Ailes 4,000 3,114 95 515 350,000
J Gianopulos 2,080 2,100 32 468 16 272,400
D Hill 2,034 1,900 36 480 15 311,600
T Rothman 2,080 2,100 26 468 16 272,400
M Stern 1,380 3,500 19 1,000 10 904,800
(1) Respective positions held by Executive Directors are detailed at Note 28 of the Full Financial Report.
(2) Messrs P Barnes and V Dinh joined the Board in April 2004.
(3) Mr. Erkko KBE retired from the Board in October 2003.
(4) Mr. Thornton joined the Board in June 2004.
(5) For Non-executive Directors, includes the value of deferred stock units credited in fiscal 2004.
(6) Amounts represent compulsory contributions to the pension plan for Australian directors.
(7) These options are valued at grant date using the Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model and were granted under the
Group’s executive share option plan described in the Full Financial Report Note 23. Pursuant to guidelines issued on 1
July, 2003 by ASIC, there has been a change in the determination of the amount of emoluments disclosed relating to
options granted during a fiscal year. In fiscal years prior to 2003, 100% of the value of options granted was disclosed as