Exhibit JC42 - The Leveson Inquiry

For Distribution to CPsThe influence of tile Diploma for Journalism on tile National Union of Journalists and futurejournalism training and educationproposed scheme. The hard-worked Education Committee also had toplan, and execute, a very comprehensive scheme for returning exservicemenwanting to take a ’refresher’ correspondence course which theCommittee arranged with Ruskin College, Oxford. 83 For this the Committeeproduced several handbooks on law, reporting and sub-editing, whichcontained much of educational interest, as well as recruiting a team ofworking journalists to act as tutors to correspondents and, at one time, 750people were signed up to take the course, with 78 tutors to assess theirwork. Much of the Union’s time between 1946 and 1949 was also taken upwith preparing the groundwork for the first ever Royal Commission on thePress, and in presenting evidence, both written and oral.Another factor contributing to both the Union, and Newspaper Society,action on schemes of education and training was the decision of theSenate of London University not to continue the Diploma course. AfterApril, 1946, there was little hope of reinstating university education forjournalism, so other schemes assumed a priority which they did not haveuntil the Diploma for Journalism was seen to be a non-starter. 84The First Royal Commission on the Press, 1947-9.(i) The Policy CommitteeThis Committee was set up after a meeting of the full Commission heldon July 17 t" 1947, with the brief ’to consider what questions of policy shouldbe examined by the Commission, and how; and to make recommendationsto the Commission? 5 The Commission itself was the result of pressure fromthe National Union of Journalists 86 for an investigation into the ’monopolistictendencies in the control of the Press with the object of furthering.., the,87greatest possible accuracy in the presentation of news...Membership of the Policy Committee included the chairman, Sir DavidRoss (1877-1971) Provost of Oriel College, Oxford, from 1929 to 1947;Lady Violet Bonham-Carter, later Baroness Asquith (1887-1969); (Sir)Robert C.K. Ensor (1877-1958); G.M. Young (1892-1952); (Sir) Hubert Hull(1887-1976); and Miss Eirwen Mary Owen. They were assisted by theCommission secretary, Miss Jean Nunn, a Girton College, Cambridge,graduate, and a principal in the Home Office. Of these Ensor had been ajournalist before becoming a historian, as had Young, and Hull was a civilservant, and Lady Bonham-Carter had just finished a term as a Governor ofthe BBC (1941-6). Ensor, Ross and Young were all connected, in someway, with Balliol College, Oxford.It was the Policy Committee’s task to formulate the questions to beaddressed to witnesses and it called upon people like Leonard Woolf(1880-1969), joint editor of the Political Quarterly from 1931 to 1959, andSir William Haley (1901-87) then Director-General of the BBC, a formerjournalist on the Manchester Evening News who later edited The Timesfrom 1952 to 1966, to discuss topics with them. Miss Nunn drew up a list of’Questions on which information and conclusions will be required’ and the’Appropriate body to investigate’ was placed on the right-hand side of thelist. The ’body’ could be the full Commission, the Policy Committee, theSecretariat or Research (which was under a specially-appointed officer,162MOD100051333