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.Appendix VIIIProfessor Sadler’s Proposed Syllabus, September, 1908.A new type of Honours School in a University to amalgamate into one course ofacademic training a number of studies, usually kept separate:1. ENGLISH LANGUAGE: training in the power of expression of the mothertongue.2. PSYCHOLOGY: for insight into the working of the mind.3. LITERATURE: English, French, German.4. HISTORY:European, American, Oriental, as well as British andIrish.5. SCIENCE:some training in scientific method.6. LAW:basic elements for journalists.7. ECONOMICS: with special reference to problems of socialorganisation such as poor-relief, invalidity and old-age pensions, solutions forunemployment, the question of military service, and of education. Awareness offoreign experience in these areas.8. GOVERNMENT: knowledge of the working of the political,educational and government authorities, local and national.9.PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE: possibly by apprenticeship, or, trainingnewspaper.**** Sadler infers this implicitly when he states that journalism students needed theequivalent of the Manchester University’s ’demonstration’ schools for traineeteachers.SOURCE: Paper presented to the Institute of Journalists Annual Conference,Manchester, 1 st September 1908.233MOD100051404