Exhibit JC42 - The Leveson Inquiry

For Distribution to CPsThe importance and meaning of the London University Diploma for Journalism course2o SMM ST2/2/38. 1921/22.21 Mansfield, F.J., 1935, The Complete Journalist, p. xi. Harold Evans ’gorged’ on this book in 1952when he was appointed a sub-editor on the Manchester Evening News. See My Paper Chase. lhe TrueStories of Vanished Times, (New York: Little, Brown, 2009) 142.22 ibid.23 op. tit. p. 95.24 Clarke, Tom, 1945, Journalism, p. 60.25 1 am grateful to Wynford Hicks for this report of a meeting at Oxford University Labour Party,1961/2.26 Pinnington, G., interview with the author, 1978, accessible on companion website for this book.27 Royal Commission on University Education in London, 1909-13. (Tile 1 laldane Commission). Cmnd.6717.28 KDJ/18/1-45, University of London archives, and author’s personal collection of notes in manuscript.29 London University Examination Papers. Journalism Diploma, 1927-39. 1936: Practical JournalismPaper question six.3o Clarke, ibid. 11/1231 ibid. p. 6132 SMM ST2/2/55, 1938/39.33 Pinnington, ibid, speaking in 1978. Ten years later Mary Stott, the former women’s editor of TheGuardian, interviewed about her journalistic career, reprised that remark saying ’the hard job’s notwriting, it’s thinking...it’s thinking it out, that’s the difficult bit. It’s selection. With all writing,you’ve got to select the points to make sense...you’ve got to prune it down and get it taut and clear.’WritmgLives. Conversations Between Women Writers, edited by Mary Chamberlain (Virago: London1988).34 One example, Robert Stephens with tlugh Gaitskell.35 Green, V.t].tI., The Universities, p. 337.36 Dalton, See note 6 above.37 Truscot, Bruce (Allison Peers), 1951, RedBrick University, originally published in 1942.3s Clarke, Tom, 1936, Brian.39 Pinnington, ibid, referring to his days on the Daily Herald, when he raised the subject of having beenon the Diploma for Journalism. Howard Whitten quotes Gaistkell’s favourable reference.4°(a) Collins, J.C., 1908, ’The Universities and Journalism,’ Nineteenth Century, 372, February, 327-40.(b)Tunstall, J., 1973, ’Journalism as an Occupation’, Medico-Legal Journal, 41 (3), 87-101.4~ Vide Miss Skipsey’s plea to ’teach economics journalistically.’ For other, later methods, see JohnBroadbent in bibliography. Mr. John Turuer’s ’Contemporary Affairs’ Syllabus in the Diploma in RadioJournalism (CNAA) London College of Printing is one example from the 1980s.42 Council for National Academic Awards, Communication Studies Panel (n.d) Memorandum to theRoyal Commission on the Press, 1975-77).43 C.N.A.A. ibid., p.2.44 C.N.A.A. ibid., p.1.45 Letter to the author from Roger Fulford, dated 12 November, 1978.46 University of London Examination Papers. The Examination for the Diploma for dournalism 1927 to1939, in the author’s possession.47 Joan Skipsey’s four page report: ’List of students who passed the Diploma for JournalismExamination, June 1938’, in the author’s possession. [Henceforth ’List’]48 Letters to Tom Clarke from R.L. Harmsworth, 22 and 24 July, 1935, and 21 May 1936, in theauthor’s possession.49 Skipsey, 3 November, 1938, ’Report on Employment of 1928 Journalism Diploma Winners’[Henceforth’ List’]5o Skipsey, ’List’.5t Skipsey, ’Report’. Smallman (b.1915) was a student at King’s 1934/9 and awarded the Diploma in1938.52 Geoffrey Pinnington, editor of the Sunday People, interviewed in his office by the author on Tuesday,28 November, 1978. Pinnington died on December 24, 1995.53 ’Ex-Students’ Opinions on the [London University] Journalism Course’ 12 December 1932, 6 pages,in the author’s possession.54 Royal Commission on the Press, 1947-49, Cmnd. 7700, para. 663, TNA ttO 251/101, paper 256.55 Royal Commission on the Press, 1975-77, Cmnd. 6810, ch. 18. (compare Cmnd. 7700 para. 623 andCmnd. 6810, 18.27)202MOD100051373