"registry. In 2006, reporters at the paper used private investigators to illegally gain access to hundreds of mobile phone voicemail accounts held by a variety of people of interest to the newspaper. In 2007 the paper's royal correspondent, Clive Goodman, pleaded guilty to illegal interception of personal communication and was jailed for four months; the paper's editor, Andy Coulson, had resigned two weeks earlier. In 2009/2010, further revelations emerged on the extent of the phone hacking, and how it was common knowledge within the ""News of the World"" and its News International parent. According to a former reporter at the"
"have finally had a good day"". He added that the case against him had been a ""waste of money"". Coulson married his wife, Eloise, in 2000. They have two children. He follows Tottenham Hotspur. In October 2013, it was revealed that Coulson had had an affair with Rebekah Brooks that lasted from 1998 to 2007. Andy Coulson Andrew Edward Coulson (born 21 January 1968) is an English journalist and political strategist. Coulson was the editor of the ""News of the World"" from 2003 until his resignation in 2007, following the conviction of one of the newspaper's reporters in relation to"
"Andy Coulson Andrew Edward Coulson (born 21 January 1968) is an English journalist and political strategist. Coulson was the editor of the ""News of the World"" from 2003 until his resignation in 2007, following the conviction of one of the newspaper's reporters in relation to illegal phone-hacking. He subsequently joined David Cameron's personnel as communications director, until announcing his departure on 21 January 2011 because of continued media coverage of the phone-hacking affair. The overall impact from his tenure came to be known as the ""Coulson effect"". Coulson was arrested by the Metropolitan Police Service on 8 July 2011 in"
"News of the World The News of the World was a national red top newspaper published in the United Kingdom from 1843 to 2011. It was at one time the highest-selling English-language newspaper in the world, and at closure still had one of the highest English-language circulations. It was originally established as a broadsheet by John Browne Bell, who identified crime, sensation and vice as the themes that would sell copies. The Bells sold to Henry Lascelles Carr in 1891; in 1969 it was bought from the Carrs by Rupert Murdoch's media firm News Limited. Reorganised into News International, itself"
"Rebekah Brooks Rebekah Mary Brooks (""née"" Wade; born 27 May 1968) is a British journalist and former newspaper editor. She was chief executive officer of News International from 2009 to 2011, having previously served as the youngest editor of a British national newspaper at ""News of the World"" from 2000 to 2003, and the first female editor of ""The Sun"" from 2003 to 2009. Brooks married actor Ross Kemp in 2002. They divorced in 2009 and she married former racehorse trainer and author Charlie Brooks. Brooks was a prominent figure in the News International phone hacking scandal, having been the"
"Editor in 1993. He left ""The Sun"" in 1998 and took up the editorship of ""The People"". In 2003, he moved to become Deputy Editor of the ""News of the World"", and in 2007 he became Executive Editor of the paper. In May 2009, he announced that he would be leaving his post later in the year. He was known as ""The Wolfman"" by fellow journalists. Wallis is a former member of the Editors' Code of Practice Committee at the Press Complaints Commission. After leaving journalism he worked for the Outside Organisation, a company specialising in public relations, becoming Managing"
"Directorate. In August 2006, the ""News of the World""'s royal editor, Clive Goodman and a private investigator, Glenn Mulcaire, were arrested by the Metropolitan Police, and later charged with hacking the telephones of members of the royal family by accessing voicemail messages, an offence under section 79 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. On 26 January 2007, both Goodman and Mulcaire pleaded guilty to the charges and were sentenced to four and six months imprisonment respectively. On the same day, it was announced that Andy Coulson had resigned as editor of the ""News of the World"". In 2007,"
"editor. He progressed through deputy news editor and news editor and was promoted to assistant editor (news) in 2003. Edmondson was hired to the ""News of the World"" editorial team by Neil Wallis, who was Andy Coulson's deputy editor in November 2004. Coulson promoted Edmondson to assistant editor of the news department in October 2005. He was allegedly one of Coulson's inner circle of executives when Coulson was editor of the paper, according to a former reporter from the ""News of the World"". As the assistant editor of the news section, he was part of a clique of senior ranking"
"deceased British soldiers, and victims of the 7 July 2005 London bombings had also been hacked. The resulting public outcry against News Corporation and its owner Rupert Murdoch led to several high-profile resignations, including that of Murdoch as News Corporation director, Murdoch's son James as executive chairman, Dow Jones chief executive Les Hinton, News International legal manager Tom Crone, and chief executive Rebekah Brooks. The commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), Sir Paul Stephenson, also resigned. Advertiser boycotts led to the closure of the ""News of the World"" on 10 July 2011, after 168 years of publication. Public pressure"
"July 2011, Cook and his wife were believed to be preparing a legal action against the ""News of the World"", Marunchak, Miskiw and Mulcaire. Marunchak was also identified by BBC as the ""News of the World"" executive who had arranged for someone to plant a Trojan on the computer of a former British intelligence NCO, Ian Hurst. In 2000, Rees was sentenced to seven years in prison and served five. Upon release in 2005, he resumed his private investigative work for ""News of the World"", where Andy Coulson by that time had succeeded Rebekah Brooks as editor. Coulson has maintained"
"2011 News Corporation scandals In mid-2011, out of a series of investigations following up the ""News of the World"" royal phone hacking scandal of 2005–2007, a series of related scandals developed surrounding other News Corporation properties—where initially the scandal appeared contained to a single journalist at the ""News of the World"" (with the 2007 jailing of Clive Goodman and the resignation of then-editor Andy Coulson), investigations eventually revealed a much wider pattern of wrongdoing. This led to the closure of the ""News of the World"" on 10 July 2011, an apology by Rupert Murdoch in an advertisement in most British"
"of the World"" as assistant editor on the news desk. There he helped to co-ordinate the work of Mazher Mahmood (also known as the fake sheikh), particularly Mahmood's taping of frank unguarded comments by Sophie, Countess of Wessex about various political figures and members of the Royal Family. He became assistant editor (news and investigations) in 2001. In April 2002 ""News of the World""'s crime editor Peter Rose resigned following the collapse of a proposed interview with a witness to the death of Damilola Taylor. In 2003 an employment tribunal ruled in favour of Rose's case for constructive dismissal. The"
"under whose direction the inquiry had been established, said that he welcomed many of the findings, but declined to enact the requisite legislation. Part 2 of the inquiry was to be delayed until after criminal prosecutions regarding events at the ""News of the World"", but the Conservative Party's 2017 manifesto stated that the second part of the inquiry would be dropped entirely, and this was confirmed by Culture Secretary Matt Hancock in a statement to the House of Commons on 1 March 2018. In 2007, ""News of the World"" royal editor Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire were convicted"
"of journalists. In some cases, religious clerics called for punishments including death to be given to critics of Wahhabi Islam in the media. These punishments were sometimes issued in religious court, such as in 2003 when the journalist Mansour al-Nogaidan claimed he was sentenced to 75 lashes for his articles criticizing the religious doctrine of the country. The case of journalist Jamal Khashoggi gained international attention. After many years serving as a reporter and foreign correspondent for several Arab newspapers, Khashoggi worked as a deputy editor-in-chief of Arab News from 1999 to 2003. In 2003, he became the editor-in-chief for"
"Weekly World News The Weekly World News was a largely fictional news tabloid published in the United States from 1979 to 2007, renowned for its outlandish cover stories often based on supernatural or paranormal themes and an approach to news that verged on the satirical. Its characteristic black-and-white covers have become pop-culture images widely used in the arts. It ceased publication in August 2007. In 2009, ""Weekly World News"" was relaunched as an online only publication. Its current editor-in-chief is Neil McGinness. The ""WWN"" was launched in 1979 by publisher Generoso Pope, Jr. as a means to continue using the"
"Minister. It was also reported that Murdoch had given Cameron a personal guarantee that there would be no risk attached to hiring Andy Coulson, the former editor of ""News of the World"", as the Conservative Party's communication director in 2007. This was in spite of Coulson having resigned as editor over phone hacking by a reporter. Cameron chose to take Murdoch's advice, despite warnings from Nick Clegg, Lord Ashdown and ""The Guardian"". Coulson resigned his post in 2011 and was later arrested and questioned on allegations of further criminal activity at The ""News of the World"", specifically the News International"
"trial. Shortly after, Myler moved to the United States and was appointed executive editor of the ""New York Post"". He returned to London in 2007 to become editor of the ""News of the World"" and remained in post until the paper ceased publication on 10 July 2011. On 22 July 2011, Myler and former ""News of the World"" lawyer, Tom Crone, wrote to the Parliamentary Select Committee to clarify evidence given by James Murdoch in respect of the News International phone hacking scandal which had resulted in the closure of the ""News of the World"". They appeared before the Committee"
"""News of the World"" until its closure in July 2011. In an article earlier in 2011 Malone had written of how proud she'd always been of the ""News of the World"", despite spending ten years working with its fiercest rival at the ""Sunday Mirror"". From September 2007 to April 2011, she appeared as a regular discussion contributor on ""The Alan Titchmarsh Show"" and, since 2009, has regularly reviewed the newspapers on ""This Morning"". Since 2017, Malone has appeared weekly on Sky News' The Pledge. In 2009, a complaint to the Press Complaints Commission about one of Malone's columns in the"
"""The Sun"" to edit ""Bizarre"". He hired Dominic Mohan, who was later promoted to editor. He set up the website page3.com, which was the first of News International's websites to make a profit. He became deputy editor of the ""News of the World"", the Sunday sister paper of ""The Sun"", in 2000. In 2001, in the run up to the general election, he asked Tony and Cherie Blair whether they were members of the mile high club. Coulson replaced Rebekah Wade as editor in 2003. In an interview with the ""Press Gazette"" in 2005, he said that ""Tabloid newspapers in"
"to the plight of the Marsh Arabs in southern Iraq to the civil wars in Afghanistan, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Somalia. He was the presenter of ""BBC Four News"" from its launch in 2002; the programme was later relaunched as ""The World"". In January 2003 he joined the ""BBC Six O'Clock News"", which he co-presented with Sophie Raworth until October 2005, and with Natasha Kaplinsky until October 2007. Since 3 December 2007, he has been the sole presenter of the ""Six O'Clock News"". Prior to that, he had been the deputy anchor of the ""BBC One O'Clock News"" and ""BBC"
"London. It was announced by Bell Pottinger that Rebekah and Charlie Brooks were expecting a daughter in early 2012 via a surrogate mother. A daughter was born at the private Portland Hospital in London on 25 January 2012. Rebekah Brooks Rebekah Mary Brooks (""née"" Wade; born 27 May 1968) is a British journalist and former newspaper editor. She was chief executive officer of News International from 2009 to 2011, having previously served as the youngest editor of a British national newspaper at ""News of the World"" from 2000 to 2003, and the first female editor of ""The Sun"" from 2003"
"August 2011, she married John Toker, the Cabinet Office's Director of Communications for Security and Intelligence, and a former ITN producer. They have two children. Deborah Turness Deborah Mary Turness (born 1967) is a British journalist who is the head of NBC News International. She was formerly president of NBC News (2013-2017), and editor of ITV News (2004–2013), which made her the UK's first female editor of the network news. Born in Hertfordshire, England, Turness was educated at St Francis' College and the Knights Templar School in Baldock, Hertfordshire. Turness went on to study at the University of Surrey, where"
"from May 2008. He took over the place previously held by the ""Daily Mail""'s editor-in-chief Paul Dacre, who had served on the body from 1999 to April 2008. The PCC issued two reports, in 2007 and 2009, which were compiled in ignorance of the significant information from the ""Mail"" group about the hacking of its journalists’ phones. According to ""The Guardian"" journalist Nick Davies, whose revelations had resulted in the ""News of the World"" phone hacking trial and subsequent conviction of Andy Coulson, this reinforced News International's ""rogue reporter"" defence. The PCC's 2009 report, which had rejected Davies' claims of"
"was as presenter and special correspondent in the BBC Washington bureau from 2007 to 2010, where she anchored political coverage, and filmed original features on U.S. politics, economics and culture. Her stories aired on BBC World News, PBS news broadcasts, BBC America's ""World News America"", and the BBC online. Before that, during 2007 and 2008, she presented the 22:00 ET edition of ""World News Today"", a one-hour news programme on the BBC World News channel. From 1997 to 2001 she was also a BBC North America correspondent, providing headline news from the impeachment of President Clinton to the global impact"
"involvement of Ian Edmondson, a senior editor at the paper, in work undertaken by Mulcaire. Beginning on 8 July 2009, ""The Guardian"" made a series of allegations that the phone hacking activities at the ""News of the World"" went far beyond the activities for which the ""News of the World"" royal editor Clive Goodman was jailed in 2007, those activities being limited to members of the royal household. The paper alleged that hacking victims included public figures such as former deputy prime minister John Prescott, Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, Tessa Jowell when she was Olympics Secretary, Boris Johnson when"
"chair, although he eventually recovered enough to return as an occasional correspondent. Vargas continued on the broadcast, until May 2006, when she announced she was stepping down and going on maternity leave. On May 29, 2006, ABC named Charles Gibson as sole anchor of ""ABC World News Tonight"". Two months later, ABC renamed the program ""World News with Charles Gibson"". In February 2007, the program achieved the number one spot in the Nielsen ratings for nightly news broadcasts, overtaking ""NBC Nightly News"". This was ABC's first victory since the week Peter Jennings died in August 2005, and the first time"
"responsible for helping the police and other bodies find out the facts about the ""News of the World"" phone hacking scandal. The MSC is chaired by Lord Grabiner and reports to Gerson Zweifach, General Counsel of the News Corp. Lewis was group general manager at News International in the UK, a post he held from September 2010. In September 2010 he joined News International, part of News Corporation and owner of ""The Sun"", ""The Times"", ""The Sunday Times"" and the ""News of the World"". He was appointed to the role of Chief Creative Officer in February 2013. News Corporation is"
"Deborah Turness Deborah Mary Turness (born 1967) is a British journalist who is the head of NBC News International. She was formerly president of NBC News (2013-2017), and editor of ITV News (2004–2013), which made her the UK's first female editor of the network news. Born in Hertfordshire, England, Turness was educated at St Francis' College and the Knights Templar School in Baldock, Hertfordshire. Turness went on to study at the University of Surrey, where she took a degree in French and English; she then took a postgraduate course in journalism at the University of Bordeaux, France. She joined ITN"
"above). Some former anchors of the weekend news broadcasts include Sam Donaldson (Sunday edition, 1979–1989), Kathleen Sullivan (Saturday edition, 1985–1987), Barry Serafin (Saturday edition, 1987–1988), Forrest Sawyer (Sunday edition, 1989–1993), Carole Simpson (Saturday edition, 1988–1993; Sunday edition, 1993–2003), Elizabeth Vargas (Saturday edition, 1997–2003; Sunday edition, 2003–2004), Jim Avila (Saturday edition, 2006–2007), Terry Moran (Saturday edition, 2004–2005), Bob Woodruff (Sunday edition, 2004–2005), Dan Harris (Sunday edition, 2006–2011) and David Muir (Saturday edition, 2007–2011; Saturday and Sunday editions, 2011–2014). Muir, who had taken over ""World News Saturday"" in 2007, took over the Sunday broadcast in 2011, ending the practice of using separate"
"he joined the ""News of the World"" as Assistant Editor, becoming Deputy Editor and, in 1995, Editor. Hall remained in the job until May 2000 when he then joined ""Hello!"" magazine as editor and later was appointed Editorial Director of Development at Trinity Mirror, before moving into PR consultancy. He founded PHA Media in 2005, specialising in areas of PR including crisis and campaign management, personal profile building, media relations and more recently, digital communications. Phil Hall (journalist) Phil Hall (born 8 January 1955) is a British journalist, the former editor of News of the World and a PR consultant"
"reporter for ""The Sun"" before joining ""The Sunday People"", under editor Neil Wallis. He moved to the ""News of the World"" in June 2001, under editor Rebekah Brooks (then Rebekah Wade) but was sacked in 2005 by then editor Andy Coulson for drink and drug problems. He said in regard to his drug taking while employed by the ""News of the World"", ""I was paid to go out and take drugs with rock stars – get drunk with them, take pills with them, take cocaine with them. It was so competitive. You are going to go beyond the call of"
"18 April 2015 Goodman was found formally not guilty of all charges at the Central Criminal Court. Clive Goodman Clive Goodman (born 17 September 1957 in Hammersmith, London) is an English journalist, former royal editor and reporter for the ""News of the World"". He was arrested in August 2006 and jailed in January 2007 for intercepting mobile phone messages involving members of the Royal Household. Goodman initially worked as a journalist on Nigel Dempster's gossip column in the ""Daily Mail,"" before joining the ""News of the World"" as royal editor. He was among the tabloid journalists covering the breakdown of"
"first place for General News Photo and third place for Breaking News Photo. Adrin Snider won second place for Photo-Illustration. Kevin Goyette was awarded second place for Headline Writing and third place for Front Page Design. Tamara Dietrich won first place for Column Writing, and Robert Brauchle placed second in Government Writing. David Teel won third place in Sports Column Writing. Tony Snow served as editorial page editor from 1982 to 1984 and went on to become a nationally syndicated columnist and White House press secretary under President George W. Bush from April 2006 until September 2007. Daily Press (Virginia)"