Exhibit JC42 - The Leveson Inquiry

For Distribution to CPsHacks and Dons - Teaching at the London University Journalism School 3.919-1939: Its origin,development and influence.was ’not one subject I would blot out of that course.’ Gardiner deplored themodern journalists ’lack of respect for what is beyond his depth’ and calledon universities themselves to ’widen, modernise, and humanise theirculture’ to help combat the ’smart cynicism that has taken the place of thesober, pedestrian virtues of the old school ’74 of journalism. As if to rubhome this point, the report states that ’six Institute members took the chairfor luncheon in their old Colleges’- the meeting that month was held inOxford.Some Other Schemes for Education for JournalistsVarious courses, for working journalists, were initiated under the bannerof the IoJ co-operating with local universities, but details are sparse. Forinstance, Trinity College, Dublin, jointly organized a series of lectures withthe Institute’s Dublin and Irish Association District. These were more byway of being public lectures, by prominent figures, to arouse the interest ofundergraduates who, in their turn, had asked what protection the Institutewas prepared to offer them should they practice their new profession(Appendix IX). 7sThe IoJ also called upon people with expert knowledge to share theirthoughts on the subject of education for journalism. One approached was aformer editor of the Schoolmaster, Dr. Thomas Macnamara, who had beenelected President of the National Union of Teachers in 1896, beforebecoming a Member of Parliament in 1900. Details of a syllabus heprepared in 1905 are unavailable. Even though he became the country’sfirst Minister of Labour, in 1902, none of his papers are extant.The Leeds District of the IoJ ran a series of lectures for workingjournalists, with the co-operation of Leeds University, 76 but details, again,are patchy, although we do know that the President of the Institute for1908, Sir Alfred Robbins, presented his son, Alan Pitt Robbins (1889-1967), with one of the prizes awarded to eight, out of the 35, journalistsparticipating who submitted essays at the close of the course, which ranthroughout 1908.Review and SummaryAs the purpose of this chapter has been to try and set the scene beforewe examine the original concern of this research, the University of LondonDiploma for Journalism (1919-1939), it only remains to fill in a few detailspinpointing attempts at starting specific educational courses for journalists.Interesting ideas about education were in circulation during this periodprior to the start of the London University course. The German import -heuristic methods of teaching - was introduced into chemical teaching inLondon in 1897 by Dr Harry E. Armstrong, and he quoted Edmund Burke inrelation to this ’new’ method: ’1 am convinced that the method of teachingwhich most nearly approaches to the methods of investigating isincomparably the best since, not content with serving up a few barren andlifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grow, it tends to set the53MOD100051224