Several readers have pointed out something I am aware of and should have mentioned: The "two-class" system of share ownership that I claim is crucial to the quality of America's best newspapers (and ...

Activist investor Irenic said it would back fellow dissident Starboard Value's push to collapse News Corp.'s dual-class share structure. Irenic previously pushed to block a considered merger between ...

Dual-class share structures involve two or more classes of authorized common stock, with one class having the traditional one vote (or, in the rare case of Snap, no votes) per share, and the other ...

Public companies with dual-class stock structures are set up in a way that often gives chief executives outsized influence over the direction of the firm. That can be advantageous when trying to ...