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Ian Edmondson (born c. 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 as part of Operation Weeting. ==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 spent 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. 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. He was allegedly one of Coulson's inner circle of executives when Coulson was editor of the paper, according to a former reporter from the ''News of the World''.〔 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. His News of the World ex-colleague was the paper's former royal editor, Clive Goodman, who produced some news scoops which involved paying the private detective Glenn Mulcaire to hack in to mobile phones belonging to leading public figures.〔 In May 2012 he was appointed as the editor of ''Loaded'' magazine.〔Mark Swenet ("News of the World's former news editor to edit ''Loaded''" ), ''The Guardian'', 22 May 2012〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ian Edmondson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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