Exhibit JC42 - The Leveson Inquiry

For Distribution to CPsThe University of London Diploma for Journalism: The Educational Background and Aims ofthe CourseOrganiser, Lecturer, Demonstrator, Guide, Philosopher, and (I hope)Friend, to 124 students. It really is more than a one-man job. ’61Clarke soon discovered that students from University College did notwish to attend the practical journalism sessions because they had notentered the course with the intention of becoming journalists. Hence hisremarks that University College authorities had not shown any dispositionto consult him about the ’suitability for the practical course of the studentsthey had enrolled. His requests to University College tutors for reports ontheir students’ academic work ’had been, to say the least overlooked. ’62These experiences spurred his efforts towards arranging for the courseto be centralized in King’s. This way control of admissions, and properselection of students under a single and definite policy, would make forsimpler tasks for lecturers and students. The lecturer’s because he wouldbe relieved of making special arrangements for University College studentscaused by their differing term dates, clash of lectures etc. Students’ lifewould be easier centred in one college, able to look at the JournalismBulletin Board daily for details of extra assignments which UniversityCollege students missed by not being where the Journalism Room wassituated, in King’s College. Another problem was the sheer weight ofnumbers of students on the Practical Journalism courses. On top of that:’the deplorable English of quite a number should have been an immediatedisqualification for a course in which the power of expression in simpleEnglish is essential.’Plans to Re-Organise the Course at King’s CollegeClarke and Harrison prepared a draft memorandum on how the courseshould be re-organised once in King’s. There should be a Director ofAcademic Studies with the same responsibilities as the existing tutor forjournalism students, and they also proposed a committee of all teachersmeeting at least twice at term to consider the work of the students. Tryingto run the existing Diploma, which had no departmental leader and no-oneresponsible for overseeing the co-ordination of academic instruction givenby the different lecturers, was the root cause of many of the problemsassociated with the course, ranging from initial selection to isolation ofsome students from the ethos of the Journalist Room to which studentswere given their own key. To counteract the ’deplorable English,’ tutorialsessions once a fortnight were proposed: this would raise the number ofhours the lecturer spent with students from four to fifteen hours a week, so,obviously, another member of staff would be required, and Roger Fulton(1902-83) of The Times was appointed. Another proposal to relieve theworkload on Clarke was the appointment of a part-time assistant, plus asecretary assistant. The memorandum saw the latter as being a womanwith journalistic experience who could assist the Director of PracticalJournalism with the lectures, ’copy’ marking and preparation, organizevacation work and run an embryo employment bureau as well as acting asregistrar and secretary to both Directors.9OMOD100051261