MUMBAI: US media conglomerate News Corp has said that its chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch received a salary of $4.5 million and a bonus of $18.9 million for the year ended 30 June 2005.
 
 

His bonus rose by about 50 per cent from last year’s $12.5 million. News Corp president and COO Peter Chernin received a salary of $8.3 million and a bonus of $18.9 million
 
 

Chernin’s bonus thus more than doubled from $8 million last year. Chernin renewed his contract with News Corp last August.