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Les Hinton: The News International Years As Rupert’s ‘Consigliere’
By Ingrid Lunden
Jul. 16, 2011, 5:04am
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Over the past three-and-a-half years, Les Hinton had made a name for himself in the U.S. as something of a turnaround specialist, making goo… Read More »
News Corp. (NSDQ: NWS) sent out a flurry of memos and statements in the wake of news that Les Hinton had resigned as CEO of Dow Jones and pu… Read More »
The latest News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). casualty in the spreading hacking scandal: Les Hinton, CEO of Dow Jones since it was acquired by News Corp… Read More »
A bitter internal wrangle has broken out at News International over who saw emails retrieved by the company four years ago which suggest tha… Read More »
The Wall Street Journal was a poster child for premium subscriptions long before Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) bought out the Bancr… Read More »
Les Hinton and Robert Thomson don’t exactly finish each other’s sentences — they’re a tad too polite for that — but they could. When I jok… Read More »
At the World Newspaper Congress here in Hyderabad this afternoon, Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) CEO Les Hinton came out swinging against the world i… Read More »
James Murdoch has, as expected, created a chief operating officer role for News International as part of a “streamlining” restructure brough… Read More »
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By Rafat Ali
May. 28, 2008, 6:28am
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In the middle of apprehensions about the major editorial changes at Wall Street Journal, some reassurance from Les Hinton, the new-ish CEO D… Read More »
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The new Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) CEO Les Hinton gave his first public interview to The Australian, and though no revelatory points, some reiter… Read More »
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