The Guardian has reported that the award-winning former News of the World reporter James Desborough has been arrested by police investigating phone hacking at the newspaper.
Desborough was arrested on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications after arriving at a south London police station on Thursday morning, the paper said.
Police confirmed that a 38-year-old man had been arrested in connection with the investigation.
The arrest is the 13th made by Operation Weeting, the police investigation looking into phone hacking.
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Desborough joined the News of the World in 2005. He won the British Press Award for showbusiness reporter of the year in 2009, and became the paper's US editor in the same year.