News America Inc (Formerly Newscorp USA) — Receipts Report
Client
Lobbying client · LD-2 disclosures
News America Inc (Formerly Newscorp USA)
District of Columbia
17 filings from 1 registrant · 2008–2013 · latest filed Jan 8, 2014
Reported on its behalf
$1.4M
every LD-2 on file
Its own filed spend
$0
lobbying for itself
Fees to outside firms
$1.4M
across every firm on file
Spend over time
Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who lobbies for them
Every outside firm that has filed on this client's behalf, by fees reported.
Reading this · LD-2 reports a hired firm's fee and a registrant's reported expenses on separate lines and never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. Firm names link to their own record as the firms chapter lands.
What they lobby on
Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Communications/Broadcasting/Radio/TV
COM
16 filings
$1.4M on those filings
Copyright/Patent/Trademark
CPT
9 filings
$790K on those filings
Trade (domestic/foreign)
Bills named in the filings
The 15 most-cited of 66 bill references, extracted from the activity descriptions.
S. 415112th CongressSpectrum Optimization Act4 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 1242111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.4 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 2566110th CongressNational Digital Television Consumer Education Act
Who did the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this client's filings.
David BockornyBockorny Group, Inc.16 filingsthrough 2013
Brenda ReeseBockorny Group, Inc.16 filingsthrough 2013
Todd ThorpeBockorny Group, Inc.Covered position: Chief of Staff to Rep. Chris Cannon (04-06)16 filingsthrough 2013
Andrew Charles DodsonBockorny Group, Inc.16 filingsthrough 2013
Nicole VenableBockorny Group, Inc.
The filings
Every filing on record. Each row links to its full disclosure.
This record groups every filed spelling of the client's name into one entity, so "MERCK & CO., INC." and "MERCK & CO INC" read as the same company. The grouping is the client's normalized name — organizations that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: news-america-inc-formerly-newscorp-usa.
TRD
8 filings
$700K on those filings
Advertising
ADV
4 filings
$320K on those filings
Banking
BAN
4 filings
$320K on those filings
Foreign Relations
FOR
3 filings
$270K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX
2 filings
$160K on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP
1 filing
$90K on those filings
Telecommunications
TEC
1 filing
$90K on those filings
Agriculture
AGR
1 filing
$80K on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore spend on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
4 filings
through 2008
H.R. 2905110th CongressBroadcaster Freedom Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 719110th CongressKIDS Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
S. 1780110th CongressProtecting Children from Indecent Programming Act4 filingsthrough 2008
S. 431110th CongressKIDS Act of 20084 filingsthrough 2008
S. 602110th CongressChild Safe Viewing Act of 20074 filingsthrough 2008
H.R. 1981112th CongressProtecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 20113 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3309112th CongressFederal Communications Commission Process Reform Act of 20123 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 3675112th CongressNext Generation Television Marketplace Act3 filingsthrough 2012
H.R. 2994111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.R. 3750111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
S. 910111th CongressNamed in the filings; no matching bill record on file.3 filingsthrough 2010
H.J.Res. 79110th CongressDisapproving the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission with respect to broadcast media ownership.3 filingsthrough 2008
How these are found · Bill references are extracted from the free-text activity description each filing writes, then matched to the Congress in session that filing year. A reference we can't match to a bill on file is still shown, unlinked — we cite what the filing said rather than guess at what it meant. Naming a bill is not a position on it: LD-2 records that a client lobbied on the bill, never which side.
11 filings
through 2013
Melissa SchulmanBockorny Group, Inc.Covered position: Leg. Assistant to Rep. Thomas Manton (88)10 filingsthrough 2013
