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.starting: ’Moses first reporter, made himself the spokesman unto thepeople. On Mount Sinai wrote all the words of the Lord. (shorthand) Tablesof stone. Broke notebook.., but started reporting tradition of accuracy bybringing back with him his rod of proof.’Nor did he forget his audience, even in King’s College with so manywomen among his band of young, hopeful newspaperwomen of the future.He did not forget to mention Jane Coe’s Perfect Occurences of Parliamentand Chief Collections of Letters of Several Victories of 1644 and MrsPowell’s Charitable Mercury and Female Intelligence of 1716. Rushingacross the centuries from Corantes to Courants, Clarke saw the turningpoint of English Journalism as the introduction of the Daily Mail: ’... and themost important thing was the appeal to women as well as men.., hithertopapers had not considered the existence of women readers.’ Clarke’sadmiration for the founder of the Daily Mail, Alfred Harmsworth later LordNorthcliffe, led him to write two books on his days under his tutelage.Even this historical sketch returns to his favourite theme that: ’from thenews-pamphleteers of Elizabethan days to modern times when the Presshad become a major British industry.., it has been the same, the samegetting about of all news and therefore the basis of all journalism.’ As if todistance himself and his students on the eve of their first vacationattachments in newspaper offices from the academic setting of the lectureroom, Clarke continued: ’now you see why men started newspapers; tosatisfy human curiosity as to what was going on at home and abroad. Nowyou see what journalists do - practical journalists.., who give the publictheir newspapers. They do not sit in easy chairs and write what comes intotheir heads. They go out into the city highways and by-ways, to policecourts; to wars; to borough councils and funerals; to political meetings withsermons.., to theatre and football match - always out and about, searching,questing in the most competitive profession in the world.’The Question of Teaching ShorthandBy early in the academic year 1938/39 Clarke had also settled the thornyquestion of shorthand: Pitman’s College, in its Southampton Row annexe,offered a short course before the start of the academic year at one-third thecost of ordinary courses. Lasting six hours a day over three, or four months(with an extra guinea to pay for that extra month on top of £10) this wasonly suitable for those living in London and so a Correspondence Coursewas also offered for three guineas (£3.15). A third option was twice-weekly,two-hour evening classes just for King’s journalism students during thecourse. All these arrangements involved the Principal of King’s, Dr.Halliday, in protracted negotiations and might indicate the extent theCollege was prepared to go to demonstrate its serious intentions for thecontinued success of the course.News TeamsAs the course progressed first and second year students combined toproduce simulated newspaper operations, with two groups of teams127MOD100051298