Dow Jones CEO Search Drags On

Company mum on replacing Les Hinton

A month since the phone-hacking scandal claimed Dow Jones & Co. CEO Les Hinton, his lack of successor is turning out to be another elephant in the room for News Corp.

Hinton had been publisher of The Wall Street Journal and CEO of its parent Dow Jones for the past four years. But Hinton, a lifelong Rupert Murdoch lieutenant, had come under scrutiny because he presided over the British subsidiary News International for 12 years prior, when much of the alleged phone hacking took place.

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