Les Hinton's To Become CEO Dow Jones & Company

It’s musical chairs at NewsCorp. As James Murdoch moves to Chief Executive, Europe and Asia, News Corporation; Robert Thomson will become publisher of The Wall Street Journal; and Les Hinton is becoming Chief Executive Officer of Dow Jones & Company.

Hinton’s email to News International staff after the jump …


Many of you will already know that I am leaving News International to become Chief Executive Officer of Dow Jones & Company. The new job will be based in New York and becomes effective next week when News Corp completes its acquisition of Dow Jones.

After 12 years, it is going to be a real wrench to leave News International.

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