UPDATE: The 79-year-old News Corp chairman’s basic salary remains unchanged at $8.1 million, according to the latest filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission for fiscal year 2010 ending June 30th. But his performance-related bonus fell 20% to $4.4 million. Murdoch’s stock and share options last year stayed the same at $4.1 million. And, sure, there was $275,117 worth of personal use of the News Corp corporate jet. Murdoch received total compensation valued at $22.7 million for the fiscal year 2010. Murdoch still controls 317 million Class B voting shares and 8.8 million Class A non-voting shares in News Corp; together that’s worth $4.58 billion as of yesterday.
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