Mr. Hinton is coming under scrutiny for what he did and did not know when he ran the company from 1995 until 2007, the period when the most egregious known examples of voice mail hacking by News International employees took place.
Les Hinton resigns in the wake of the NOTW scandal, as predicted by Howie Kurtz. “What did he know, and when did he know it?” That’s the question we’ll be hearing over and over again as the investigations unfold.
(Source: The New York Times)

