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.research was revealed in later discussion when it was announced that thenext annual conference of the Institute, in 1908, would include a session on’University Teaching for Journalists. ’32 This apparently dampenedenthusiasm on the question of entry requirements, and they disappear fromview:Tff~ University debate will be considered later.De Blowitz of The TimesS.H.O de Biowitz (1825-1903), the ’Prince of Journalists, ’33 as hisbiography is titled, wrote about a grandiose scheme devised by himself withanother six friends around Europe, that needed a federation of JournalismSchools in which journalistic aspirants could learn the history and literatureof Europe in the first two years (after they had taken a degree) 34 with thestudy growing more detailed as it approached the most recent past.Political constitutions, climate, manufacturing, means of communication,armed forces, budgets and the most remarkable contemporaries in everycountry would be the basis of the study. Boxing, horse-riding, pistolshooting and drawing would round-off the fuller man. Sophistication wouldcome with a further three years traveling around the world on scholarships.De Blowitz’s descriptions of what the novice journalist should have,reflects, in many ways, his biographer’s assessment of his character:’... the love of danger.., a boundless curiosity and love for truth.., a markedfacility for rapid assimilation and comprehension.., good health.., sees andhears accurately and knows how to express quickly what he sees andhears. ’35This novitiate would then be able after conversation with a specialist -having first familiarized himself with the theoretical and practical elements -to understand the special explanations well enough to reproduce them ingeneral intelligible language. This remarkable prot6g6 would obviouslystand head and shoulders above ’the common stream.’ The keen feelingcoming across is on de Blowitz’s ability to project himself into any situationeventhat of novitiate journalist. Needless to say, little was heard of thisscheme, although the scholarship idea might have fallen on friendly ears.Journalism Scholarship at City of London SchoolThe City of London School had unveiled a memorial to a former student,George Steevens (1869-1900), who had died of disease while acorrespondent for the Daily Mail covering the Boer War in South Africa.Known as the ’Balliol prodigy ’36 Steevens had been a Fellow of PembrokeCollege, Oxford, before committing himself to journalism, joining W.E.Henley (1849-1903) of the National Observer - a nursery of journalistictalent according to other journalists? 7 Between 1893 and 1896 he workedon the Pall Mall Gazette where Henry Cust (1861-1917) was editor andjoined the Daily Mail, when it opened in 1896, as a special correspondent.He served in USA, India and France covering the Dreyfus trial, as well asSouth Africa. The first news editor at the Daily Mail, Lincoln Springfield,regarded him as a brilliant reporter who could have made a reputation onthe strength of his descriptive writing? 845MOD100051216