Exhibit JC42 - The Leveson Inquiry

For Distribution to CPsAppendicesAppendix XXXIXDraft article prepared by Joan Skipsey for World’s Press News based on alecture given by Morley Stuart to the Diploma for Journalism students 15 ’hMarch 1938’Cambridge unsurpassed as Journalistic Training Ground’-Morley SmartTwenty-one King’s College journalism students dispersed to newspaper officesall over England last weekend, for their first vacation practice work.Morley Stuart, Editor of the Cambridge Daily News, put them into a ’local’frame of mind in a lecture at the College on Tuesday, March 15 th.Cambridge, seat of town and county government, was unsurpassed as a trainingground, declared Mr. Stuart. ’Everybody comes to Cambridge, great men of everycalling to take part in the University life, or, during vacation, in some conference.Every member of the Royal Family has been there. Queen Mary often motors overwhen at Sandringham, and in the last year or two she has brought Queen Elizabethwith her twice.A book to be published this week, ’In the Words of the King’, is based onspeeches by the present King. It shows he has made eight speeches at Cambridge,two as an undergraduate. References in our columns provided Mr. Hector Bolithofor the account of the King’s varsity career in his ’Life’.Yet with all these varied interests there was something very intimate andfriendly about the town, and local newspaper readers were quick to respond to anappeal or enter into the spirit of any new project for their amusement. Picturecompetitions were a great success, such as ’Who ls It?’, showing the backs of localpersonalities, and ’Where Is It?’, now running, showing a small piece of scenery orarchitecture. The Chairman of the Cambridge Chapter of Architects had recentlywritten that these photographs were doing much to raise the standard ofarchitectural interest in the town, adding ’We wish to express our appreciation ofyour efforts in this direction and hope you will continue the series for someconsiderable time and, if possible, extend your efforts in this direction.’In nine years over 11,150 children had joined the ’Robin Fellowship’,maintaining a Robin Cot in the Hospital. Early members, now growing up, were tobe called ’Goodfellow’, and next month a Goodfellows’ Ball has been arranged tobring them together.People primarily bought a local paper to read about themselves. The provincialjournalist required an entirely different technique from the national man. ’We likeour papers to look bright;’ said Mr. Stuart. ’We like a fresh angle to an old story,but we also want the report. It is our job to record the daily activities of a town andthat cannot be done in a few bright headlines and a stick or two of type.It is easy to scoff at long reports and say that no one troubles about them in thesedays. That is not my experience.We in Cambridge - and I must emphasise Cambridge again because other townsmay not be quite the same - attach a good deal of importance to an adequate reportof a meeting or fianction and not just a few spicy titbits from it. Our evening paper,which celebrates its jubilee this year, has been built up on fairly long reports. There294MOD100051465