Andy Coulson
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English journalist and political strategist
Why Is Andy Coulson Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Andrew Edward Coulson is an English journalist and political strategist. Coulson was the editor of the News of the World from 2003 to 2007, following the conviction of one of the newspaper's reporters in relation to illegal phone-hacking. He subsequently joined David Cameron's personnel as communications director, until announcing his departure on 21 January 2011 because of continued media coverage of the phone-hacking affair. The overall impact from his tenure came to be known as the "Coulson effect".
