Metropolitan Police role in the news media phone hacking scandal Times" deputy editor Raoul Simons. On 22 September 2011, "The Independent" published an article authored by James Cusick and Cahal Milmo reporting that, within weeks of the arrests of Clive Goodman and Glenn Mulcaire in August 2006, "a senior police officer" advised Rebekah Brooks there was substantial "circumstantial evidence" in the documents seized from Mulcaire that "News of the World" journalists in addition to Goodman were implicated in phone hacking. It also reported that in early autumn 2006, Tom Crone, legal manager for News International, contacted several other executives, including then News of the World editor Andy Coulson, informing them
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