NEW YORK (Reuters) - Les Hinton, the top executive of Rupert Murdoch's Dow Jones & Co, resigned on Friday after becoming a target of criticism for the phone-hacking scandal that occurred when he oversaw News Corp's British newspapers. (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA) (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?i=_3VZX1GHsjY:aTNPLYOFkBM:V_sGLiPBpWU) (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/topNews?i=_3VZX1GHsjY:aTNPLYOFkBM:-BTjWOF_DHI) (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/_3VZX1GHsjY)