Exhibit JC42 - The Leveson Inquiry

For Distribution to CPsYoung Women Learning Journalism at London University, 1919-1939the sheaf of copies rolling out of the press and then carry the copies backto college.’ ~aJournalism employment for women studentsAs the Diploma course closed down at the start of the Second World Warit was possible to indicate how many women from Tom Clarke’s four-yeardirectorship had secured jobs in newspapers and magazines. ElizabethBeaumont (1938-39) was on the Daily Mirror, Marjorie Booth* (1936-38)was women’s page editor of the Natal Mercury, Evelyn Clarke*(1935-37)was in the editorial department of the Farmer & Stockbreeder, EleanorCurrie (1936-38) on the Sunday Chronicle then on The Queen, J. Joynton-Smith (1937) was a reporter on a Chichester,paper, Margaret Lester*(1937-39) on the Oxford Mail, and Dorothy Sherris* (1935-37) was areporter in Gloucester, then on Vogue. Enid Zeitlyn* (1934-36) on aHampstead paper, but then at the Ministry of Information with Mary Bradley(1935-36), Joy Harding (1937-38), Mary Timpson (1938-39) and MargaretThain (1937-39). and Joan Preston*(1934-36) the first to become an editorthe Acton Times. ~4Joan Skipsey maintained records of the remarks made by editors onstudents’ holiday work attachments. A report on July 1 ~t, 1938 listed Eastervacation reports for ten men and eight women second-year students, out ofthe twenty men and twenty-three women in that year. Although the namesin the report were left blank, I have been able to discern who went where.The Kentish Gazette said Miss Leila Rita Goller created a mostfavourable impression: ’She was keen and displayed a real aptitude for thework and initiative. She did some excellent reports while at Canterbury.’Similary, Miss Kathrine Sorley Walker, reported the editor of the HamiltonAdvertiser and County of Lanark News ’showed herself imbued with thetrue journalistic spirit. At the courts she was quick to pick out the essentialsof a case and, most important for a rising reporter, was a goodparagrahist...In fact [she] was able to do, and do well, what she wastold...We considered her a smart girl with a natural flair for journalism.’ YetWalker never admitted being on the Diploma course and requested that Inot mention her name in relation to the course while she was alive. But it isthere, in the files, for anyone to see? 5The Exeter Express & Echo, said of Miss Ursula G. Franklin: ’She is aquick worker, and obliging, and will, I think, do well when fully trained.’ Theeditor of the Middlesex County Times, Mr H.T. Hamson, a firm believer ineducation for the journalist, praised Miss Eileen M.L. Coombe and declaredthat she ’showed evidence of the usefulness of the London Universityjournalism course. As you know [he wrote] we have taken students heresince the course started and Miss Coombe was one of the two best wehave had. The other was Miss Joan Preston (class of 1934-36), whom wehave employed since she took her diploma.’ It is interesting to note that shebecame editor of the Acton Times during the 1940s.On the basis of these comments we can assess how different were theproducts of the 1920s Diploma course from those who attended its last fouryears. They reveal also, how attitudes within newspaper offices had216MOD100051387