The News of the World reporter who went to jail over the now-shuttered newspaper’s hacking scandal wrote in a 2007 letter that the illegal practice was “widely discussed” at editorial meetings and he conducted his hacking with “full knowledge and support” of his bosses, according to a report in the Guardian Tuesday.
Clive Goodman, the News Corp. paper’s former royals reporter, wrote that then-News of the World editor Andy Coulson, who upon leaving the outlet became now-Prime Minister David Cameron’s spokesman, specifically barred talk of phone hacking at the paper after it used to be openly discussed at meetings.
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“This practice was widely discussed in the daily editorial conference, until explicit reference to it was banned by the editor,” Goodman wrote.
The letter, along with several others related to the phone-hacking scandal, were released Tuesday by Parliament’s culture, media and sport select committee. Names of News Corp. journalists who Goodman said knew of the hacking were redacted, the Guardian said, at the request of London police.
Goodman’s 4-year-old letter, addressed to the human resources director of News International, News Corp.’s British newspaper unit, also was sent to then-News
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