Exhibit JC42 - The Leveson Inquiry

For Distribution to CPsAppendicesJoan Skipsey BiographyBy Fred HunterJoan Skipsey (1915-99) was both a student and, later, a staff member of thefledgling journalism department at King’s College, London University,graduating with the Diploma for Journalism in 1936. Halfway through hertwo-year course, in 1935, Tom Clarke arrived as Director of PracticalJournalism. Joan had been a journalist on the Amalgamated Press beforejoining the King’s course and, on graduating in 1937, worked for Allen Lane,then founding Penguin Books, before moving to assist Dr. G. B. Harrison,whom she knew as academic tutor for King’s journalism students, when heundertook the editorship of the Penguin Shakespeare Series. After a year inpost, Clarke found himself overwhelmed with over 100 journalism studentsand Joan was appointed to assist him in 1937 becoming, in effect, the firstwoman to teach journalism at a British university. Since the journalism courseexpected students to report London events Joan co-ordinated with majornational and local government agencies, commercial and legal organisations,as well as newspapers and advertising agencies, setting students practicaljournalism assignments to be reported, written up, and submitted to deadline.She also arranged visiting lectures by leading journalists of the day (whichwere also often reported and marked by her and the lecturer.) Joan relievedClarke of this administrative burden becoming the taskmistress concerned withboth the arrangement, and marking, of assignments, subject to Clarke’s finalapproval. On the outbreak of the Second World War in September, 1939, Joanwas stranded in New York where she worked under Rene MacColl (1905-71)at the British Information Services, where she first met the British-bornnovelist and poet, Doris Peel (1907-90) with whom she shared an apartmentand who became a life-long friend. Back in England in 1941 Joan worked firstfor the Daily Telegraph before joining the American division of the Ministryof Information, undertaking lecture tours of the mid-western States of Americafrom 1942-45. After the war Joan worked fleetingly as a staff writer on themagazine Illustrated before returning, to the USA, in 1948, to work on theTopeka State Journal. By 1951 she was back in England to marry GeoffreyGalwey and gained some experience teaching day-release journalism studentsat West Ham College before taking a full-time post with the Notting Hillbranch of the Citizen’s Advice Bureau until 1977, when she retired toWalberswick where she died in January 1999.258MOD100051429