Goodman Fallout continues

A lot of continuing coverage over the Goodman jailing and today Guardian Media alleges

The News of the World undertook a review of its system of paying informants during the period that Clive Goodman was breaking the law by hacking into mobile phone messages,

The paper brought in a new regime at the start of 2006 to cover the procedure that reporters should follow when paying for information. It is not suggested that the review was prompted by Clive Goodman's activities.

Peter Preston writing in yesterdays Observer says interestingly

Free journalism, serving a real public interest, sometimes has to cut corners. Free journalism and the Information Commissioner's textbook don't sit easily on the same shelf. There are many more arguments to be had here, and many more lines to be drawn.

two careers at the top would seem to have ended. So the man in the hottest seat has paid a high price. It's difficult for other journalists not to feel a little sad about that. Coulson had four bustling, talented years in the chair, winning awards as well as professional admiration. This is a terrible way to go - almost as terrible as Goodman's fall from grace. There will be many who think the debacle - in terms of the stories broken - an unfair balloon of outrage.

And in the Independent on Sunday some sympathy

Those who work for the red tops know only too well the pressures that led Goodman to turn to a private investigator for help. The reporter made his reputation with a series of exclusives about Princess Diana, but his stock fell after her death. By early 2005 he was considered by his bosses to be no longer coming up with the right stories. Colleagues in the office gave him the nickname "the eternal flame", because he never went out. When he was sidelined by the appointment of a younger reporter to cover the Royal Family, Goodman became desperate. He called Mulcaire, a private investigator who could give him access to the voicemail messages of those closest to the royals.