News of the World royal phone hacking scandal failures of the police investigation would go on to form part of the wider scandal in 2011. 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
Media coverage in conjunction with the news media phone hacking scandal coverage, as did Sky News in the UK, whose controlling interest was owned by News Corp. On the day after Murdoch closed "News of the World", his "New York Post" mentioned the scandal on page 29. In comparison, "The New York Times" and "The Washington Post" had front-page stories, as did Murdoch's "Wall Street Journal" and his "Times of London". The Atlantic Wire; (14 July 2011) ABC News (Australia); (29 July 2011) The Australian Centre for Independent Journalism at the University of Technology Sydney conducted a study of coverage of the phone hacking scandal from 8 to 15 July by