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.methods and place in modern journalism, but provide little analysis of his politicalinfluence and are more hagiography than biography.On 15 June 1920 Clarke secured the first musical broadcast on wireless byarranging for Nellie Melba to sing excerpts from La Bohhme from the Marconifactory at Chelmsford--a broadcast which was heard around the world. In thefollowing November 1920, the American Wireless Age published a two-pageinterview with Clarke on this ’epochal achievement belonging to the other side ofthe Atlantic’.After Northcliffe’s death in 1922, Clarke accepted the invitation of KeithMurdoch to become assistant editor of the Melbourne Herald; he lived in Australiawith his family from 1923 to 1926, and related some of his experiences in his bookMarriage at 6 a.m. (1934). Then he made what he later regarded as the biggestmistake of his career, and became managing editor of the Daily News in July1926--and editor, as well as a member of the board of directors, when it mergedwith its rival the Daily Chronicle in 1930 to become the News Chronicle. Underhis influence the paper’s circulation rose above one million, and he revolutionizedits format to compete with other national newspapers--so much so that LordBeaverbrook several times tempted him to become editor of the Daily Express, butClarke felt he had to honour his contract. However, the political problemssurrounding the News Chronicle, not least having to contend with three boards ofdirectors caused by amalgamating the Daily News, the Daily Chronicle, and theWestminster Gazette, forced him to resign in October 1933. A year later heworked, briefly, in Denmark on Berlingske Tidende, before returning to the DailyMail to cover the Australian cricket tour of England in 1934.Clarke’s appointment as director of practical journalism for London University’sdiploma of journalism (really Britain’s first professor of journalism), in 1935, wascelebrated by a public luncheon in his honour. He had previously lectured at theuniversity while news editor of the Daily Mail and served on the university’sjournalism committee from 1931. In his new position he revolutionized the course.He ensured that it was centred in King’s College, and added practical reportingassignments, ably organized by his assistant and former student Joan Skipsey, atthe law courts, local government offices, the Port of London Authority, Selfridges,train and travel companies, and so on. These had to be of a prescribed length andsubmitted before a deadline. Together with the academic tutor to journalismstudents, the well-known editor of the Penguin Shakespeare books, GeorgeBagshawe Harrison, Clarke modernized the syllabus so that students were taughtthe background to the modern world.Although the course closed in 1939, never to be re-established, Clarke’s legacyto British journalism continued through the 1980s when Geoffrey Pinnington, theHarmsworth gold medallist in journalism for 1939, became the editor of theSunday People. Clarke condensed his lecture notes, now in the King’s CollegeLondon Archive, to publish a textbook, Journalism (1947).In summer 1936 Clarke toured the world with his daughter Patricia, as his wifewas by then incapacitated by the mental illness which affected her until her death.One result of the tour was the publication of Round the World with Tom Clarke(1937). About this time Clarke began an affair with Sheila Irene Emily Castle, thenwife of Edward Cyril Castle, a journalist and later Lord Castle of Islington. Thedaughter of Harry Samuel Green, a coastguard officer, she took Clarke’s name bydeed poll at the birth of their daughter, Judith, although they did not marry until249MOD100051420