Details on how News Corp. split will work

Here's how the split will work:

— Newspapers, book publishing and information services such as Dow Jones Newswires will be part of the publishing company. The 20th Century Fox movie studio, the Fox broadcast TV network and the Fox News Channel will be part of the media and entertainment company.

— Current News Corp. shareholders will get shares in each company, but how many shares and how much each entity will be worth have yet to be announced. Both companies will trade publicly, under different stock tickers. In the U.S., the entertainment company is tentatively planning to use "FOX" and "FOXA" for its two classes of shares, while News Corp. is likely to keep "NWS" and "NWSA."

— The new News Corp. company will be spun off and the existing News Corp. will be renamed 21st Century Fox. The new News Corp. will have $2.56 billion in cash and no debt. That amount is to include a payment of $1.82 billion from what will become 21st Century Fox. Another $741 million is already held in cash by the businesses to be spun off.