's U.K. newspaper unit from late 2007 to mid-2009, has said he became aware of widespread wrongdoing in late 2010 as a result of evidence that surfaced in civil lawsuits against the paper.
Mr. Jay asked Mr. Murdoch if he had a "cavalier" attitude to corporate governance in relation to phone hacking and added that there had been a "consistent theme" of a coverup at the company about the extent of the paper's wrongdoing, which first publicly surfaced in 2006.
As evidence has surfaced in recent months of a much broader problem at the paper, Mr. Hinton's earlier assertions have been resurrected in the press with increasing frequency.