News of the World royal phone hacking scandal announced that Andy Coulson had resigned as editor of the "News of the World". On 13 November 2005, an article appeared in the "News of the World" written by royal editor Clive Goodman, that claimed that Prince William was in the process of borrowing a portable editing suite from ITV royal correspondent Tom Bradby. Following the publication, the Prince and Bradby met to try to figure out how the details of their arrangement had been leaked, as only two other people were aware of it. Prince William noted that another equally improbable leak had recently taken place regarding an appointment
News media phone hacking scandal Hinton said, "I believe absolutely that Andy Coulson did not have knowledge of what was going on." Asked whether Goodman was the only person who knew about the phone hacking, Hinton replied that he believed Goodman was. In addition to Hinton, the Committee heard from Stuart Kuttner, managing editor of the "News of the World", Tom Crone, legal manager of News International, Colin Myler, editor of "News of the World", and Andy Coulson, former editor of "News of the World". All of them stated there had been a thorough investigation of phone hacking and no evidence had ever been found