Exhibit JC42 - The Leveson Inquiry

For Distribution to CPsThe influence of the Diploma for Journalism on the National Union of Journalists and futurejournalism training and educationDiploma for Journalism did not receive such benefits, although students onthe course benefited to the tune of £900 annually in scholarshipscontributed mainly b provincial newspapers through the auspices of theNewspaper Society. 6~/The University view was expressed in the minutes of the Senate: ’... theSenate are willing to continue the award of the Diploma, provided that asatisfactory scheme of study can be agreed upon, but that they are notprepared to re-establish a School of Journalism, or to provide thenecessary instructional facilities which should be undertaken by theProfession itself. ’64Sir Linton Andrews had written a memorandum on behalf of the Instituteof Journalists proposing a ’Technical Committee of Inquiry into the futuretraining of newspaper workers, and the possibility of basing it upon acurriculum ’65 which would have industry-wide relevance. He wanted a’scheme of training which could be embodied in a national system ofeducation.’Although the memorandum was aimed at getting the Minister ofEducation to set up such an enquiry all he offered was a Board ofEducation official to act as an adviser. Andrews believed in the kind oftraining offered by Clarke at London University before the war, yet he saw adanger in producing journalists ’too academic in their outlook. ’66 Clarkeresponded to his friend’s comments deploring the melancholy state ofaffairs in which ’we muddle on in the old haphazard way. ’67Clarke returned to the question of perpetuating university-basededucation for journalism in a letter to the Times later the same year (seeAppendix XXIII) in which he commented upon: ’... academic bodies.., fearsof endangering their standards by the merging of academic and practicalstudies which is essential in any journalism course worthy the name. ’68Because of the university’s ’jealousy regarding their standards’ Clarkesuggested the idea of a Journalism Society: ’such as the Law Societyprovidingits own programme of studies, its own professional code, and itsavenues of recruitment: but that seems something far off.’ But this wasattempted, as an undated letter in the King’s College archives suggestswhen replying to intending applicants for the journalism course: ’theprofessional associations.., tried to establish some form of Institute to beconducted in association with the University, but this proved to beimpossible. ’69 The absence of such an Institute was something whichpuzzled a member of the third Royal Commission of the Press in 1977 and,had it existed, there might have been little need for three suchCommissions. 7°New Moves Towards a National System of TrainingEven as these ideas were being aired in the press various organizationswere deliberating the way forward. In May 1945, the N.U.J. discussedproposals for ’Recruitment and Training al which were in response to anearlier invitation from the Newspaper Society to engage in tripartitediscussions on the subject with the Institute of Journalists. 7z By the time theNewspaper Society’s Monthly Circular was announcing the University of]60MOD100051331