Ian Edmondson
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| credits = News of the World, The People
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Ian Edmondson (born {{circa|1969}}) is a British tabloid journalist. He was the news editor at the News of the World. Edmondson was arrested by the Metropolitan Police in April 2011 during the Operation Weeting phone-hacking investigation.
Career
Edmondson worked for News of the World twice. Before landing his first position at News of the World Edmondson worked as a freelance reporter. He was initially hired by News of the World as a general news reporter. He went on to spend 18 months as the paper's crime correspondent before moving to rival tabloid The People in 2000 as assistant news editor. He progressed through deputy news editor and news editor and was promoted to assistant editor (news) in 2003.{{cite news |title=Coulson poaches People news man |author=John Plunkett |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/jul/15/thepeople.newsoftheworld?INTCMP=SRCH |newspaper=The Guardian|date=15 July 2004 |access-date=19 August 2011 |location=London}} Edmondson was hired to the News of the World editorial team by Neil Wallis, who was Andy Coulson's deputy editor in November 2004. Coulson promoted Edmondson to assistant editor of the news department in October 2005.{{cite news|author=James Robinson |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/jan/06/news-world-ian-edmondson-profile |title=Ian Edmondson was at heart of News of the World's operations | Media |work=The Guardian |location=UK |access-date=14 July 2011 |date=6 January 2011}}
A former News of the World reporter said that Edmondson was one of the inner circle of executives when Coulson was editor of the paper. As the assistant editor of the news section, he was part of a clique of senior-ranking staff that discussed 'high grade' and sensitive news stories privately after the official editorial meetings had taken place. He was reported to have been privy to most of the big scoops the paper published each week. News of the World's former royal editor, Clive Goodman, who produced some news scoops which involved paying the private detective Glenn Mulcaire to hack into mobile phones belonging to leading public figures, was a colleague of Edmondson's.
In May 2012 Edmondson was appointed as the editor of Loaded magazine.Mark Swenet [https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/may/22/news-of-the-world-editor-loaded "News of the World's former news editor to edit Loaded"], The Guardian, 22 May 2012
''News of the World'' phone hacking scandal
Edmondson was suspended on 5 January 2011 after being implicated in the News of the World phone hacking scandal,{{cite news |title=News executive suspended on phone-hacking allegations |url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/795c5ccc-191a-11e0-9311-00144feab49a.html#axzz1DNuSMfGh |newspaper=Financial Times |date=5 January 2011 |access-date=8 February 2011}}{{cite news |title=Ian Edmondson was at heart of News of the World's operations |author=James Robinson |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/jan/06/news-world-ian-edmondson-profile |newspaper=The Guardian|date=6 January 2011 |access-date=7 February 2011 |location=London}} and sacked later in the same month. Edmondson was arrested, along with his former colleague Neville Thurlbeck on 5 April 2011 by police as part of Operation Weeting, and released on bail until September 2011,{{cite web|url=http://content.met.police.uk/News/Two-arrested-on-suspicion-of-unlawfully-intercepting-voicemail-messages/1260268787672/1257246745756 |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20120519194428/http://content.met.police.uk/News/Two-arrested-on-suspicion-of-unlawfully-intercepting-voicemail-messages/1260268787672/1257246745756 |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 May 2012 |title=Two arrested on suspicion of unlawfully intercepting voicemail messages |publisher=Metropolitan Police |date=5 April 2011}} later extended until March 2012.{{cite news |title=Phone hacking: NoW journalist abandons salary bid |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15114372 |newspaper=BBC News |date=29 September 2011 |access-date=29 September 2011}}
He was one of those on trial in R v Brooks, Coulson and six others, but when he fell ill the trial continued without him. A court hearing in July 2014 established that Edmondson was fit to continue. On 3 October 2014, Edmondson changed his plea to guilty,{{cite news |title=Operation Weeting – Phone Hacking|url=http://www.barkco.com/cases/operation-weeting-phone-hacking/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202104255/http://www.barkco.com/cases/operation-weeting-phone-hacking/|archive-date=2 December 2013|date=4 October 2013 |publisher=Bark&co Solicitors|location=London}} {{Failed verification|date=November 2022|reason=doesn't support guilty plea}} becoming the eighth person from the now-defunct News of the World to be convicted of phone hacking. Edmondson admitted conspiring with colleagues and private detective Glenn Mulcaire to intercept private voicemails between 3 October 2000 and 9 August 2006. These included the voicemails of two home secretaries, Sir Paul McCartney and the actors Jude Law and Sienna Miller. The court heard that Edmondson tasked Mulcaire with hacking some 344 times.BBC News (October 2014). [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29476814 "Ex-NoW news editor Ian Edmondson admits phone hacking"], BBC News, 3 October 2014. Retrieved 3 October 2014. On 7 November 2014, Mr Justice Saunders jailed Edmondson for eight months, saying that he only had himself to blame.{{cite web |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29953209 |title= Ian Edmondson jailed over News of the World hacking plot |author= |date=7 November 2014|website=BBC News | access-date=7 November 2014}}
See also
References
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Category:People associated with the News International phone hacking scandal
Category:News of the World people
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