This led to the arrest of Wallis, his former boss Andy Coulson, Rebekah Brooks and others.
Former Downing Street communications chief Andy Coulson quit as News of the World editor following Goodman's conviction.
The others charged, including ex-Number 10 press director Andy Coulson, will appear in court on 16 August.
Stephenson, in his resignation speech, pointed out that Wallis, unlike Andy Coulson, had not been forced to resign from the paper.
Cameron's judgment in hiring former News of the World editor Andy Coulson as his communications director has also been called into question.
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Cameron's former director of communications, Andy Coulson, and Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of Murdoch's News International, were charged Tuesday.
The detective told him six people were under investigation including former NoW editor Andy Coulson and reporter Sean Hoare, Mr Wood said.
Andy Coulson, a former News of the World executive is arrested.
At the same time, Andy Coulson, who was editor of News Corp.
Nor did he apologise for hiring Andy Coulson who was arrested today.
Former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott questioned Lord Strathclyde over Prime Minister David Cameron's decision to appoint Andy Coulson as his director of communications.
Cameron's former director of communications Andy Coulson is among eight journalists facing charges, as is Rebekah Brooks, the former chief executive of Murdoch's News International.
In January Andy Coulson, prime minister David Cameron's spokesman, stepped down amid speculation he had known about the hacking -- something he has always denied.
Former Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown told the Observer he had warned the government to get rid of ex-NoW editor Andy Coulson as its communications director.
The first person to call Andy Coulson to commiserate when he resigned from the News of the World was Gordon Brown (at least according to Mr Coulson).
In one of the e-mails Clive Goodman, the paper's disgraced former royal editor, was requesting cash from the newspaper's then editor, Andy Coulson, BBC business editor Robert Peston said.
Eight people, including former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson, the prime minister's former spokesman, are facing a total of 19 charges relating to phone hacking.
The nightmare for David Cameron and his government is that he will be tainted by the past - thanks to his hiring of Andy Coulson - and be responsible for the future.
David Cameron's communications chief Andy Coulson "has no case to answer" over continuing allegations about his involvement in the News of the World phone hacking scandal, according to government minister Alan Duncan.
Already, police are reportedly planning to arrest Andy Coulson, who succeeded Brooks as editor, either on similar grounds or because they have evidence that he did, in fact, condone the hacking.
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In a separate case, the prime minister's former chief spokesman, Andy Coulson, 45, from Kent, appeared at the Old Bailey facing charges over an alleged conspiracy to bribe public officials for information.
The court set the trial date for Sept. 9, 2013, during a hearing Wednesday attended by former News of the World editor Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks, former chief executive of News Corp.
"This catastrophic error of judgment - hiring Andy Coulson, hanging on to him too long - directly contributed to the position Sir Paul found himself in and his decision to resign, " said Mr Miliband.
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Having rightly attracted heavy criticism for hiring Andy Coulson, the editor of the News of the World when hacking was heaviest, the prime minister will presumably be more careful about whom he employs in future.
's U.K. newspaper unit, and Andy Coulson, a former editor of the News of the World tabloid who later served as Prime Minister David Cameron's top communications adviser until he resigned that post in 2011.
Business Secretary Lord Mandelson has called on Andy Coulson, who was editor of the News of the World during the period the allegations cover, to give a "full and open explanation" of his role in the affair.
It will be a strange feeling for Rebekah Brooks and Andy Coulson to encounter a baying pack of hacks outside their front doors knowing that they have instigated the same tactics on so many others over the years.
Mr. Myler served as editor of the New York Post before returning to the U.K. to run the News of the World in 2007, when former editor Andy Coulson stepped down as a result of the phone hacking scandal.
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Earlier in the day, Cameron defended his decision to appoint former News of the World editor Andy Coulson as director of communications for the Conservative Party and then in Downing Street, saying he was the best person for the job.
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