Former No 10 communications director and News of the World editor is sentenced.
Coulson, a former News of the World editor, is one of the four ex-journalists from the now retired tabloid to be sentenced.
The former news editor Greg Miskiw and ex-chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck were jailed for six months. Former private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, who was tasked with phonehacking, was given a six-month suspended sentence, and former reporter James Weatherup was given a four-month suspended sentence.