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
Media coverage in conjunction with the news media phone hacking scandal with most stories not on the first 10 pages of the paper. Sydney tabloid "The Daily Telegraph" carried nine stories, the least of any paper. The "Adelaide Advertiser" and the "Herald Sun" each ran 16 stories. During the week, all papers carried at least one editorial regarding phone hacking. The "Sydney Morning Herald" and the "Herald Sun" carried two. Media coverage in conjunction with the news media phone hacking scandal This is a chronological list of key newspaper articles that made significant new public disclosures about the illegal acquisition of confidential information by news media companies. This is a chronological