Exhibit JC42 - The Leveson Inquiry

For Distribution to CPsHacks and Dons - Teaching at tile London University Journalism School 1919-1939: Its origin,development and influence.As an additional bonus Harrison suggested the interviewer should betaught the ’Art of Conversation’ in any School of Journalism, and his idealeducation for a journalist is included in Appendix XVI. As it was, Dr.Harrison’s method of teaching English composition was ahead of its time,as can be seen from his scheme for teaching English, where prominenceought to be given to: ’exact description of events, places, persons as oftena better way of developing self-expression than the writing of critical essaysabout poems and short stories which they cannot understand anyway. ’104But the baronial climate of Fleet Street between the two World Wars 105was not conducive to Schools of Journalism in universities even thoughthey provided money to fund Clarke’s salary. Press Lords had a sufficiencyof supplicants for places and it was cheaper to hire and fire than to invest inschemes which might actually provide products not only ready to follow theaccepted traditions, but change them as well. This the best always did yettheir identities remained the property of a self-perpetuating, craft-oriented,network. The benefits of tutorial sessions with people like Dr. Harrison werewhat generations of workers craved for in the Workers’ EducationalAssociation, or some, like Clarke, who benefited from a stay at the workers’college, Ruskin College, Oxford. Such benefits were offered to the baronsof Fleet Street but, while they had subscribed £5,000 in 1935 to provideClarke’s salary for five years, they were unwilling to undertake the task ofsubsidising a school of journalism on a grander scale, in 1936: ’Rothermereand Beaverbrook (a determined opponent of such schools) won’t help andElias’s help might be a handicap...meanwhile there is a vicious circle: theuniversity can’t do more, or differently, unless subsidised; the Press won’tsubsidise till the university does more...we ought to be able to touchRockefeller.’ ,~08Had the ’touch’ been put into effect, there might have been a differentending here. l°TEndnotesMillerson, G, 1964, The Qualifying Associations.2 Royal Commission on Univesity Education in London, 1909-1913. (llaldane Commission) Cmnd6717, para. 41, 1913.3 SMM ST2/2/35, 1918/19.4 ibid.5 ltaldane Commission, op. eit,6 ibid.The National Archives ED/47/17 ’Report on the working of the Government Scheme for HigherEducation of Ex-Servicemen.’8 TNA RECO/I/882.9 SMM ST2/2/35, 1918/19.J0 ibid, None of these were taught until after 1925.t t Mansfield, F,J, Letter to London University, May 6 th 1919.101MOD100051272