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In pictures: News of the World phone-hacking report

Andy Coulson:
Andy Coulson: Conservative communications director who resigned as editor of the News of the World in January 2007 after royal reporter Clive Goodman was jailed for phone-hacking.
What the report says: "We have seen no evidence that Andy Coulson knew that phone-hacking was taking place. However, that such hacking took place reveals a serious management failure for which as editor he bore ultimate responsibility, and we believe that he was correct to accept this and resign ...
"The newspaper’s approach [to pay-offs for Clive Goodman and Glenn Mulcaire] differed markedly ... from that adopted towards sports reporter Matt Driscoll, to whom a tribunal awarded nearly £800,000 ... in November 2009 for unfair dismissal after persistent bullying by then editor Andy Coulson. The newspaper strongly resisted that particular claim."
Photograph: Alan Davidson
Rebekah Brooks
Rebekah Brooks: Chief executive of Murdoch's UK newspaper operation, News International, she was editor of the News of the World when, it is alleged, a number of agencies were conned into handing over confidential information.
What the report says: "We asked Rebekah Brooks, News International’s new chief executive to appear, to resolve inconsistencies in its evidence. She declined."
Photograph: PR
Les Hinton
Les Hinton: TThe former News International chairman told a House of Commons select committee after the Goodman scandal that a rigorous internal inquiry had been carried out, and said he believed Goodman was the only person who knew about the phone-hacking.
What the report says: "In spite of the allegations contained in the Guardian, the News of the World has continued to assert that Clive Goodman acted alone. Les Hinton, the former executive chairman of News International, told us: 'There was never any evidence delivered to me that suggested that the conduct of Clive Goodman spread beyond him.'"
Photograph: Murdo Macleod/Guardian
Stuart Kuttner
Stuart Kuttner: Former News of the World managing editor told Radio 4's Today programme in February 2008 that only one News of the World journalist, Goodman, had been involved in illegal phone-hacking.
What the report says: Mentioned only in a footnote.
Photograph: Fiona Hanson/Press Association
Clive Goodman
Clive Goodman: News of the World's royal editor jailed in 2007 after being involved in hacking the mobile phones of palace staff. It was claimed no other News of the World staff were involved.
What the report says: "There is no doubt that there were a significant number of people whose voice messages were intercepted, most of whom would appear to have been of little interest to the royal correspondent of the News of the World. This adds weight to suspicions that it was not just Clive Goodman who knew about these activities."
Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters
Glenn Mulcaire
Glenn Mulcaire: Private investigator jailed along with Goodman for phone-hacking.
What the report says: "It is likely that the number of victims of illegal phone-hacking by Glenn Mulcaire will never be known."
Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters
Colin Myler
Colin Myler: The current News of the World editor was appointed in the wake of Coulson's departure.
What the report says: "To Mr Myler, on the other hand, Mr Goodman’s pay-off appeared to come as a genuine surprise."
Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty
Neville Thurlbeck
Neville Thurlbeck: Chief reporter at the News of the World.
What the report says: "Thurlbeck, who was implicated in the voicemail transcript, would only give evidence in private ... Mr Thurlbeck had also been depicted as an unreliable witness in the Mosley case."
Photograph: Peter J Jordan/Press Association
Tom Crone
Tom Crone: Legal manager for News Group Newspapers.
What the report says: "Initial confirmation of the settlements came from Tom Crone and Colin Myler. It took, however, persistent questioning, and Mr Crone in particular was reluctant to be drawn. Regarding the payment to Mr Goodman, indeed, he openly contradicted himself: 'I am certainly not aware of it' he told us on two occasions. When pressed, citing misunderstanding, he then said: 'I am not absolutely certain, but I have a feeling that there may have been a payment of some sort.'"
Photograph: BBC
Baroness Buscombe
Baroness Buscombe: Chairman of the Press Complaints Commission.
What the report says: "We accept that in 2007 the PCC acted in good faith to follow up the implications of the convictions of Clive Goodman and Glenn Mulcaire. The Guardian’s fresh revelations in July 2009, however, provided good reason for the PCC to be more assertive in its enquiries, rather than accepting submissions from the News of the World one again at face value. This committee has not done so and we find the conclusions in the PCC’s November report simplistic and surprising. It has certainly not fully, or forensically, considered all the evidence to this inquiry."
Photograph: Richard Aylmer-Hall/Press Association
Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch: Chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, whose UK subsidiary News Group Newspapers paid out more than £1m to settle legal cases that threatened to reveal alleged evidence of his journalists’ methods.
What the report says: Not mentioned.
Photograph: Hector Mata/AFP
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