Les Hinton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Les Hinton

American businessman

Date of Birth: 19-Feb-1944

Place of Birth: Bootle, England, United Kingdom

Profession: business executive

Nationality: United States, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

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.