Les Hinton
| Les Hinton | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Leslie Frank Hinton 19 February 1944 Bootle, Lancashire, United Kingdom |
| Citizenship | United States (naturalized 1986) |
| Occupation | former CEO of Dow Jones & Company |
| Spouse(s) |
Mary Christine Weadick (m. 1968–2009) Kath Raymond (m. 2009) |
| Children | 4 sons, 1 daughter |
| Parent(s) | Frank Arthur Hinton Lilian Amy (née Bruce) |
| Notes | |
Leslie Frank "Les" Hinton (born 19 February 1944) is a British-American journalist 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". On 15 July 2011, he resigned from Dow Jones & Co as a result of a journalistic ethics scandal at The News of the World, a British tabloid published by News Corp subsidiary, News International, where Hinton had previously been executive chairman.
Hinton, the son of a British Army chef, was born in Bootle, a working-class area of Lancashire. He travelled with his family as his father was posted around the world, attending Army schools in Egypt, Ethiopia, Libya, Germany, and Singapore, as well as Liverpool. He had little formal education after failing his Eleven-plus, and in 1959 left school at the age of 15 and emigrated to Australia.
Except for a few years in London in the 1960s, Hinton spent his entire career with Rupert Murdoch and News Corporation. He began work as a copy boy in 1959 at the Adelaide News in South Australia, where 28-year-old Murdoch was managing director. One of his first tasks was to bring Murdoch his lunchtime sandwiches. After finishing his training as a journalist, Hinton moved to London, where he worked as a reporter at United Press International, and the then-broadsheet newspaper The Sun, before Murdoch acquired it in 1969. As a reporter, Hinton was injured while covering the Northern Ireland conflict and in 1976 he was appointed foreign correspondent for the group's newspapers and moved to New York. Hinton later worked as associate editor of the Boston Herald and editor-in-chief of Star (magazine).
In 1990, Hinton became president of Murdoch Magazines and then 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.
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