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.certain priceless facts to impart to us, and she imparted them withoutmercy or favour. ’15 Miss Low wasted no time, sending students out intonearby Oxford Street to visit Selfridges department store with the command’be back in twenty minutes.’ When they returned the students had one hourand forty minutes to write up their impressions, neatly typed in 700 words,for an evening newspaper. When Miss Low returned their work she wasadamant that they had to adhere, rigidly, to the required length. Grievecommented that ’1 found this particular discipline invaluable when, at amuch later date, I was working on gravure magazines and had to writedozens of captions to pictures to a given space. Two words over the spacemeant cutting. Miss Low had already hardened me to cutting my ownarteries, so I felt no pain. ’~6 At the end of her six-month course, Grieve firstworked on the staff of the Nursing Mirror and, like Arnold Bennett beforeher, edited Woman from 1940-62.Changes in newspaper content between the warsWhile women like Frances Low could run courses for aspiring womenjournalists, as well as publishing career manuals, newspapers themselveswere changing in the first decade of the twentieth century. In 1908 EdwardHulton began publishing a ’picture paper’, the Daily Sketch. The editor ofthe Daily Express, from 1904 to 1932, R.D. Blumenfeld, like his mentorNorthcliffe, believed that ’women number at least half, if not more, of thereaders of a national daily newspaper, ’17 and when Beaverbrook took overthe ailing Globe, in 1911, a women’s page was one of the first changes hemade. By the 1930s the editors of the popular pictorial newspapers, like theDaily Mirror, Mail, and Express, were keenly aware of both the circulationand advertising significance of the female market. Journalists were veryconscious of this change in the readership of newspapers. The’feminization’ of British newspapers was the ’most striking development inpopular journalism between the wars. ’~8 Emilie Marshall, later Peacocke,argued that the ’story of modern journalism, so far as it relates to thewoman writer, is the "Rise of the Women’s Story"’. ~9Women entrants to the Diploma for Journalism courseSo how were young women able to become students of journalism at theUniversity of London in 1919? 2o One, possibly unforeseen, result ofcreating a two-year Diploma for Journalism at the University of London wasthat it provided an opportunity for youngsters to experience universityeducation without meeting the stringent requirements - usually known as’matriculation’ - needed for pursuing a degree course. So the doors wereopened for seemingly less academically-minded students to follow coursesof study hitherto closed to them. The main beneficiaries, especially atLondon University, were young women whom London had admitted since1878. Consequently 219 women and 194 men received the Diploma whichwas planned, initially, for returning ex-Servicemen: ’to replace for them theirlost years’ after serving their country in the First World War, and receivingState funding to pay for it. Since graduates could sit for the examinations2O7MOD100051378