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.figure was 8,272 and 14,406 in 1921, a (though the shorthand writers werenot included in the last two years.) That 1841 census was the first to showseparate figures for journalists and editors, and, in 1846, there were 472newspapers listed in the first edition of the Newspaper Press Directory.Even allowing for the tentative nature of these early figures they wouldappear to illustrate the small numbers of people required to run smallprovincial newspapers. The editor often had to double up as compositor inthe printing room, if not as his own reporter as well, as advertisements inthe Daily News and the Athenaeum indicated in their job descriptions. Thefigures quoted above also lend credibility to the view, attributed to LordNorthcliffe, that twenty men were needed, in the 1920s for every singleman who used to be involved in the production of the old kind of smallcirculationnewspaper outside London.Even though we have seen references to the large inflow of Oxfordgraduates into newspapers, when the first school to offer training injournalism opened its doors in 1887 it was just these people who were itsfirst students. A Daily Telegraph journalist, David Anderson (1837-1900)was the founder and Director of the School in the Strand?This is the first known commercial school of journalism actually to openits doors to students in Britain, and, (though unknown to us today) one of itsformer students remarked, in later life, that it was so well-known that itneeded little introduction. Its place has been taken in the minds of latergenerations by the School of the same name instituted by Max Pemberton(1863-1950) in 1919, supported by Lord Northcliffe. 1°First London School of JournalismStudents paid one hundred guineas (£105) for a year’s tuition, a verylarge sum indeed in those days, and, in return, students might expect theoccasional lecture from Anderson (described as a brilliant lecturer byanother student.) 1~ Anderson’s introduction to the course was unusual inthe eyes of this student, when he said: ’You are at liberty to come and doabsolutely nothing, Ink is here. You will bring your own manuscript toprepare... I shall be sitting here (in David’s Sanctum, as students called it,an inner office off their own room) ready to share the store of myjournalistic knowledge with you.., there is nothing about journalism I do notknow. I have written hundreds upon hundreds of descriptive and leadingarticles.., nothing has escaped my purview: murder trials, art exhibitions,Royal processions, concerts, Academy private views...,~2According to one of his students attending the third year of the course,Francis Henry Gribble (1862-1956), David Anderson had been one ofDicken’s young men on Household Words and had served as a leaderwriter and special correspondent for the Daily Telegraph for many years. ~3He was also a dramatic critic from 1874-79 on The Sportsman, and later onBell’s Life In London from 1879-82 as well as writing regularly for TheTheatre and All The Year Round. ~4Anderson’s philosophy was that the student’s future was in his ownhands and, in Hichen’s words, ’he was no driver. ’is His teaching method, assuch, was simple: ’He gave me subjects to treat, articles, parodies,41MOD100051212