Les Hinton
Les Hinton | |
|---|---|
| Born | Leslie Frank Hinton 19 February 1944 Bootle, Lancashire, England |
| Citizenship | United States (naturalized 1986) |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist and writer, publisher, former CEO of Dow Jones & Company |
| Spouses | Mary Christine Weadick
(m. 1968–2009)Katharine Margaret Raymond
(m. 2009) |
| Children | 5 |
| Parent(s) | Frank Arthur Hinton Lilian Amy (née Bruce) |
| Notes | |
Leslie Frank Hinton (born 19 February 1944) 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.