Exhibit JC42 - The Leveson Inquiry

For Distribution to CPsThe Emergence and Development of Education for Journalism in Britain: John ChurtonCollins and the Birmingham University Scheme for Educating Journalistsepigrams, criticisms of plays I had seen.., sent me out to public events,such as sports meetings, processions, and changing of the guard at St.James’s Palace... I attended the Law Courts and heard a few trials. ’16Anderson read, criticised and amended stories submitted andencouraged students to contribute to London newspapers. One eveningpaper, The Globe, always had an article, over a column in length, whichturned over the page, called the ’turnover’ and Hichen submitted regularly,though rarely saw his work printed. To enable this to happen Anderson andHichen combined to start a paper called Mistress and Maid, sold door-todoorby women, which, while it provided an outlet for students’ work, didnot make money and folded. 17Gribble and Hichen name fourteen students who were on the course inits first year but it is not clear if the School had set terms, or whetherstudents were able to join at any time - and several did pursue careers injournalism and one, H. Greville Montgomery (1864-1951), became aMember of Parliament. ~8 Several of these students were graduates, mainlyOxford with at least one from Cambridge who never entered journalism. Butit is doubtful if they matched up to Anderson’s ideal entry requirements thatthey: ’should have English History at (their) fingers’ ends; knowconstitutional law, political economy and a large fund of general knowledgeto draw upon. ’~9 Gribble, for instance, had a first-class degree in Lit. Hum.from Oxford, where he attended Exeter College (and that was after fourother colleges rejected him.) 2°Although reference books show the course operating between 1887 and1897 Gribble states that students did not last out the year and ’did notrecommend it to their friends, with the result that he closed it and returnedto the Daily Telegraph. ’2~ Anderson’s view of journalism was very much thatof a Telegraph man, although he held trade journalism in high regard, hehad a very low opinion of papers like Modem Society and Tit-Bits with theirflippant content. Nobody could seriously want to be a sub-editor andlearning shorthand could be a ’fatal impediment to advancement, ’22 andAnderson followed his own advice about dressing well, ’his silk hat wasalways glossy’- reminding us that this, together with the black frock coat,was an essential element in journalistic wear in Fleet Street then, and rightup until at least the 1920s. 23The Daily Telegraph returned the compliments in a concrete way when amarble medallion was placed in Richmond cemetery in 1902 with aninscription by his former editor on that paper, Sir Edwin Arnold (1832-1904): ’Possessing high intelligence, wide education, a clear and justjudgement of men, events and literature, he gave these powers for manyyears to the daily press; and afterwards employing a large experience,brilliantly and successfully trained many good men to the honourableservice of journalism, which he himself adorned and upheld’. 24Even though he was engaged on the editorial side of the paper,Anderson was not himself a university man, being a ’journalist of the selfeducatedtype. ’2s He promised that anyone who mastered journalism wouldbe able to earn between £300 and £1,000 a year - quite a sum for thosedays. Gribble’s mastery of the ’leaderette’ under Anderson’s directionearned him a place ’out of a multitude of applicants’ on the Observer, as42MOD100051213