Les Hinton

Leslie Frank Hinton is a British-American journalist, writer and business executive whose career with Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation spanned more than fifty years. Hinton worked in newspapers, magazines and television as a reporter, editor and executive in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States and became an American citizen in 1986. He was appointed CEO of Dow Jones & Company in December 2007, after its acquisition by News Corp. Hinton has variously been described as Murdoch's "hitman"; one of his "most trusted lieutenants"; and an "astute political operator". He left the company in 2011. His memoir, The Bootle Boy, was published in the UK in May 2018, and in the US under the title An Untidy Life in October of the same year. ^{Les Hinton, English-American journalist and businessman}

19 February 1944

Born on the same birth day (19 February): Allan MacNab • Danielle Bunten Berry • Dave Niehaus • Gianluca Zambrotta • Jeff Daniels • Lydia Thompson • Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri • Norm O'Neill • Paul Dean (guitarist) • Peter Holsapple • Tiina Trutsi

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