Les Hinton
| Les Hinton | |
|---|---|
| Born | Leslie Frank Hinton February 19, 1944 Bootle, Lancashire, United Kingdom[citation needed] |
| Citizenship | United States (naturalized 1986) |
| Occupation | former CEO of Dow Jones & Company |
| Spouse | Mary Christine Weadick (m. 1968–2009) Kath Raymond (m. 2009) |
| Children | 4 sons, 1 daughter |
| Parents | Frank Arthur Hinton Lilian Amy (née Bruce) |
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Leslie Frank "Les" Hinton (born February 19, 1944)[2] is a British-American journalist and businessman. Hinton, born in the UK, became a United States citizen in 1986.[3] He was appointed CEO of Dow Jones & Company in December 2007, after its acquisition by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Hinton resigned that position on July 15, 2011, a casualty of the unfolding journalistic ethics scandal at a News Corporation subsidiary, News International.[4]
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[edit] News Corporation
Except for a few years with United Press International in London, [5] at the time of his July 2011 resignation Hinton had worked for Rupert Murdoch for more than fifty years[6] as a journalist and executive in Australia, the United States, and the United Kingdom. In 1976, he moved from London to New York as a foreign correspondent for the group's newspapers in Britain and Australia. After several executive positions, he was appointed President of Murdoch Magazines in 1990, two years later becoming President and Chief Executive Officer of News America Publishing, responsible for the company's US publishing operations. In 1993, he was appointed Chairman and CEO of Fox Television Stations, returning to London in 1995 as Executive Chairman of News Corp subsidiary News International Limited, Britain's largest national newspaper publisher.
In September 2009, Hinton was called to testify before a British parliamentary committee about the News of the World phone hacking affair, saying "There was never any evidence delivered to me suggesting that the conduct of Clive Goodman spread beyond him." Andy Coulson, the editor of News of the World, a News International's tabloid later closed, resigned at the time of Goodman's conviction in the affair. According to a later report in The New York Times, Coulson accepted "'ultimate responsibility' for the hacking during his watch."[7] On March 6, 2007, at the time of an earlier parliamentary hearing and soon after Coulson's resignation, Hinton had said "I believe absolutely that Andy did not have knowledge of what was going on" in the affair.[7]
On July 15, 2011, Les Hinton resigned as publisher of The Wall Street Journal.[8] He ran News International from 1997 to 2005, during the time which the News International phone hacking scandal took place. Although stating ignorance of the hacking, he took responsibility for News International.[8] When CEO Les Hinton's departure occurred it injected uncertainty into the Dow Jones index as News International shares slipped down.[9]
On October 12, 2011, Les Hinton is also named in the scandal surrounding the resignation of another Dow Jones Executive, Andrew Langhoff, publisher and CEO of The Wall Street Journal Europe. According to reports from The Wall Street Journal itself [10] Langhoff had been involved in pressuring journalists to write favorably about a business partner that was buying massive amounts of newspapers from The Wall Street Journal Europe. A whistleblower alerted Les Hinton, Tod Larssen and Gregory Giangrande early November 2010 about the problem. Yet, according to The Guardian [11], Les Hinton failed to act upon receiving the complaints. The whistleblower was made redundant 28 January 2011. Early July 2011 the whistleblower then alerted the US Dow Jones management team, headed by Les Hinton, in the wake of the growing phone hacking scandal in the UK. Hinton resigns 15 July as CEO of Dow Jones & Company. According to The Wall Street Journal The Guardian started to investigate the matter during the summer of 2011 which caused a panic at Dow Jones headquarters leading up to the resignation of Andrew Langhoff.
[edit] Personal life
Hinton and his long-time partner Kath Raymond married in 2009, with Rebekah Wade and Andy Coulson invited to the later celebration. They live in a townhouse on Manhattan's upper east side. Raymond, an advisor to former Prime Minister Gordon Brown in 2007–2008, and to David Blunkett before that, wrote briefly for The Daily Telegraph from New York City.[12][13][14][15][16][17][18]
[edit] References
- ^ "Leslie Frank Hinton" (fee, via Fairfax County Public Library). People of Today. Debrett's Ltd.. 2009. GALE|K2413034805 . http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Reference&disableHighlighting=false&prodId=BIC2&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE%7CK2413034805&mode=view. Retrieved 17 July 2011. Gale Biography In Context.
- ^ ""Les Hinton, Esq's Biography"". Debretts.com. http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/h/19048/Leslie%20Frank+HINTON.aspx. Retrieved 2011-07-16.
- ^ "Les Hinton - News, Articles, Biography, Photos". The Wall Street Journal. http://topics.wsj.com/person/h/les-hinton/775. Retrieved 2011-07-16.
- ^ "News Corp's Les Hinton 'resigns'". BBC News. 15 July 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14170879. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
- ^ Feola, Katie. "Murdochgate Moves to New York, Focus on Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton". Adweek. http://www.adweek.com/news/press/murdochgate-moves-ny-focus-hinton-133298. Retrieved 2011-07-16.
- ^ Jeremy W. Peters (July 15, 2011). "Les Hinton’s Resignation Letters". The New York Times. http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/15/les-hinton-chief-of-dow-jones-resigns/. Retrieved July 17, 2011.
- ^ a b Don Van Natta Jr., et al. "Tabloid Hack Attack on Royals, and Beyond", The New York Times, 1 September 2010 (September 5, 2010 p. MM30 of the Sunday Magazine). Retrieved 2011-07-11.
- ^ a b John F. Burns; Jeremy W. Peters (July 15, 2011). "2 Top Deputies Resign as Crisis Isolates Murdoch". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/16/world/europe/16hacking.html.
- ^ Adams, Russell (2011-07-16). "CEO Hinton's Departure Injects New Uncertainty Into Dow Jones". The Wall Street Journal. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304521304576448460931170004.html.
- ^ Sonne, Paul (2011-10-12). "Publisher of WSJ Europe Resigns After Ethics Inquiry". The Wall Street Journal. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203499704576625162816696954.html.
- ^ Davies, Nick (2011-10-12). "Wall Street Journal circulation scam claims senior Murdoch executive". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/oct/12/wall-street-journal-andrew-langhoff?INTCMP=SRCH.
- ^ Could Murdoch deputy Hinton take the fall?, Reuters, 10 July 2011
- ^ "Murdoch matrimony". Londonersdiary.standard.co.uk. 2009-03-31. http://londonersdiary.standard.co.uk/2009/03/murdoch-matrimony-.html. Retrieved 2011-07-16.
- ^ "News of the Wapping nuptials". Londonersdiary.standard.co.uk. 2009-07-09. http://londonersdiary.standard.co.uk/2009/07/news-of-the-wapping-nuptials.html. Retrieved 2011-07-16.
- ^ "Home news: Les has 'a bit of internal domestic discussion'". The Guardian (London). 2008-03-28. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mediamonkeyblog/2008/mar/28/homenewsleshasabitofint. Retrieved 2011-07-16.
- ^ "By Kath Hinton". London: Telegraph.co.uk. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/search/?queryText=%22By%20Kath%20Hinton%22&version=. Retrieved 2011-07-16.
- ^ James Robinson (2009-07-08). "Les Hinton: Murdoch consigliere who smoothed waters after Goodman case". The Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jul/08/les-hinton-profile. Retrieved 2011-07-16.
- ^ "Brown-nosing at the Sun". The Guardian (London). 2008-04-18. http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mediamonkeyblog/2008/apr/18/brownnosingatthesun. Retrieved 2011-07-16.
[edit] External links
- Profile at Dow Jones & Company and WSJ CEO Council
- Les Hinton collected news and commentary at The Guardian
- Les Hinton collected news and commentary at The Independent
- Les Hinton collected news and commentary at The New York Times
- Les Hinton collected news and commentary at The Wall Street Journal
- Les Hinton tells newspapers – 'Beware geeks bearing gifts', Laura Oliver, Journalism.co.uk, 2 December 2009
- Audit Notes: Les Hinton, Translating Murdoch Jr., UK Tabloid Culture, Ryan Chittum, Colombia Journalism Review, 8 July 2011
- Les Hinton, Resignation letter Les Hinton to The Wall Street Journal staff, 15 July 2011
- Les Hinton, Resignation letter Les Hinton to Rupert Murdoch, 15 July 2011
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