Exhibit JC42 - The Leveson Inquiry

For Distribution to CPsDevelopments in the Practical Journalism Component of the Diploma for Journalism 1935-1939 ioncluding a Termly Examination from 1937 onwardsterm and two were ill, but returned in the autumn. Of the remainder, 27submitted reports written after attending the London County Councilmeeting of 26 t" April, or watching M.P’s arrive for the Budget at the Houseof Commons; some had also gone to the Ideal Home Exhibition. Othershad a sub-editing test using Reuters’ teleprinted copy. Miss Skipsey typedher comments and passed them to Clarke with remarks like ’appallinghandwriting’ (reflecting the lack of typewriters) or, occasionally, ’spellingappalling’ or ’tenses all to pieces.’Records indicate that Jean Dixon-Scott left the course to work on thenewspaper which had taken her on vacation attachment (as David Dunhillhad done a year earlier) and another six did not turn up for the start of theirsecond year on the Diploma. In Miss Dixon-Scott’s case the attachmenthad included no reporting, although she had written up a wedding, andcompleted a film review as well as a book review. She had accompaniedanother reporter to interview a woman whose husband had been founddead with his head in a water butt that morning: ’it was not very nice. Still Iexpect you get hardened to those kind of cases. ’11Of the 59 offered places at the start of the 1937/38 year, 16 had fallenout by October, 1938. Out of that sixteen, one had withdrawn before thecourse started and another four never appeared in Miss Skipsey’sassignment records at all for 1937/38. Two of the latter, P.J.T. Cornish andP.P. Kranc, caused Clarke some aggravation if a typed note of June 8 th,1938, is anything to go by. Clarke had asked Cornish to leave the class thatafternoon for persistent talking during his lectures and told him not to comeback. Cornish obviously intimated he was leaving before the end of thecourse and Clarke wanted to stop him sitting the end-of-term examinationsas he feared he would use passing the examinations as evidence of hisjournalistic ability which he did not really possess. With Kranc, Harrison andClarke decided to recommend his leaving the course as even he admittedto having missed so many lectures that he could not attempt a reportingtest set by Clarke. Writing to the Principal, Dr. Halliday, Clarke mentionedthe danger that a growing number of students could come, ostensibly fortwo years, but quitting after one year if they could get a job.Although war clouds were building up over Europe there was noshortage of students knocking on the door of King’s College to gainadmission to the journalism course. By 1938 a larger proportion than everbefore came from families with newspaper connections: 12’Robert Duarte has worked on the Financial Times. Frances Mary Edmundsis a daughter of G.L. Edmunds of the Derbyshire Times. Joy Joynton-Smithis a daughter of Sir W. Joynton-Smith, founder and proprietor of the wellknownAustralian Smith’s Weekly. Lois Forman’s father is an ex-Leedsnewspaperman now with the London Press Exchange. D. Inskip Harrisonhas left the Press Association to join the course. Enver Kureishi worked forReuters in Johannesburg. Anthony McManemy is the son of a well-knownfigure in the accounts department of the The Daily Mail. Ann Meo workedon a newspaper for American women in Paris. Richard Picton: ’has done ayear’s reporting on the Hertfordshire Express. Jack Swaab was somemonths on Cavalcade earlier this year. ’~3144MOD100051315