The purge is on at News Corp, where Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton has resigned.
Les Hinton, the former chief executive of News International, which oversees News Corp.
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Mr. Fenwick succeeded Les Hinton, who resigned last year amid the phone-hacking scandal at the parent company's British newspapers.
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Les Hinton, who ran News International before her and most recently was the head of Dow Jones, resigned on Friday.
"Les Hinton was complicit in the coverup at News International, which included making misleading statements and giving a misleading picture to this Committee, " the report said.
Rebekah Brooks stepped down as CEO of the subdiary, while Les Hinton, who preceded her in that job, was forced to depart as CEO of News Corp.
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John Whittingdale, its chairman, said the committee wanted to first hear evidence from other witnesses, including former senior News Corporation executive Les Hinton and Mark Lewis, the lawyer representing alleged phone-hacking victims.
The former executive chairman of the company, Les Hinton, admitted earlier this year that previous evidence suggesting the practice was restricted to one reporter had proven inaccurate, but denied misleading the committee.
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That was nine months after Clive Goodman sent a letter to several NI executives, including Les Hinton, protesting his firing on the grounds that phone hacking was widely practiced and openly discussed at News of the World.
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It says the News of the World and News International "corporately" misled the committee, as well as accusing in-house lawyer Tom Crone, former NoW editor Colin Myler and former executive chairman Les Hinton of misleading them on particular issues.
And it raises similar questions about Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, who also resigned on Friday, and who also played a large role in the phone hacking affair, having given misleading testimony to Parliament about the extent of illegal activity during his own tenure as News International CEO.
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