News of the World 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
News International phone hacking scandal Hinton, who had just resigned in the wake of the phone hacking scandal. Many observers were frustrated by "The Wall Street Journal" comments. In tweets, Jay Rosen, professor of journalism at New York University, referred to the "deluded dishonest whining victimology delivered in the form of a Wall Street Journal editorial on the phone hacking crisis" and Sarah Ellison of "Vanity Fair" commented: "Tonite's WSJ Editorial is sad. I've always defended the Edit page, but now It's a PR arm." Key events in the scandal to date: News International phone hacking scandal The News International phone-hacking scandal was a controversy