Needham & Co. estimate that News Corp's entire newspaper division is on track to generate $956m (£595m) of earnings before interest and tax in the year just ended to June 30. Of that, it surmises that around 80pc will came from the Australian division, 10pc from US papers – including the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal – and the remaining 10pc from News International, which also publishes The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times. With The Sun the real earnings machine – accounting for an estimated 75pc of NI's earnings – she believes that The News of the World accounted for just $10m – or £6.2m – of profit.