Exhibit JC42 - The Leveson Inquiry

For Distribution to CPsHacks and Dons - Teaching at the London University Journalism School 1919-1939: Its origin,development and influence.course allied to capital to provide scholarships ’for its own chosencandidates’ in the hope that the industry would support ’its brighter stars’ onthe Diploma course. This did, in fact happen to some extent in the last fewyears of the course, when, on average, about a dozen applicants left jobsin journalism to attend the course, though only a few were supported bynewspaper finance.Dr. Harrison also mentioned that some members of the JournalismCommittee felt that the existing Diploma should become a postgraduateDiploma making the course a ’special training in the rudiments ofjournalism and a knowledge of the modern world’ to those who havealready received a degree. This could be justified because a far largerpercentage of young people who used to leave school at sixteen oreighteen were now spending three years extra in University training. Theresult was an increasing number of graduates entering all kinds of newposts and professions.Clarke’s First Year as Director of Practical JournalismWhile Dr. Harrison was telling the Institute there was no desire for adegree in journalism Clarke himself was avidly reading, and marking, thefacilities available to the journalism schools in America at Missouri, Illinoisand Ohio States Universities. He corresponded with American professorsand, later, met others while on a visit to his daughter who was then marriedto an American journalist. In place of the printing presses and newsroom ofhis American counterparts Clarke hoped to get waste-paper baskets, 25desks for reporters, with typewriter tables and filing cabinets. Eventually theDaily Telegraph gave them one typewriter, which was later stolen.Blackboards would be used for posting diagrams of news pages andnotices of lectures but he wanted a ’bulletin board’ for pinning upnewspaper schedules. File racks for current newspapers and a clippingsservice for reference (using ’one girl student on this’) plus a library and a’morgue’ were also required.This list is headed by a note that the equipment must make theclassroom look like a newspaper office and there should be a motto:’Accuracy. Facts. Report what you see not what you want people to see. ’6QBy December, 1935, Clarke was thanking the newspaper industry fortheir co-operation when he was guest of honour at a luncheon at the CafeRoyal with Colonel Lawson, Sir Leicester Harmsworth (1870-1937) and SirHarry Brittain (1873-1974) as his hosts. He thanked people like HenryMartin, editor-in-chief of the Press Association, for sending current newscopy for students to work on, as did Reuters’ Editor-in-chief, Mr. Rickatson-Hatt. A plea to Sir Roderick Jones of Reuters, for a teleprinter met with ahearty laugh and a pledge to supply one: it appeared in King’s within aweek; as the College would not accept liability, Reuters had to pay for theinsurance as well.For the lack of £2,000 a year the course was unable to proceed with ’ascheme nearer our ideals’ which would enable them to hold up their headsto their American rivals. As it was, Clarke described himself as: ’Director,89MOD100051260