Exhibit JC42 - The Leveson Inquiry

For Distribution to CPsThe University of London Diploma for Journalism: The Educational Background and Aims ofthe CourseSir Sidney Lee. The Director of the School of Journalism at ColumbiaUniversity, New York, Professor J.W. Cunliffe, with two other Americans,contributed to the debate by outlining the syllabus at Columbia and advisedthe London journalists to ’first catch your millionaire,’ because that was theway his department had begun, sponsored by Joseph Pulitzer, thenewspaper proprietor.William Hill was on hand to remind the meeting of his experiences,teaching schoolboys at the City of London School, several years earlier.Distinguished journalists like Sir Edward Cook, Sir Sidney Low (1893-1972), Sir Edmund Robbins, as well as Miss Mary F. Billington (1862-1925)of the Daily Telegraph, were in attendance. Numerous others, like ArnoldBennett, Lord Bryce, J.L. Garvin, J. Alfred Spender and Professor SpencerWilkinson (1853-1937) wrote in support of the idea of university educationfor journalism.The conference agreed that the Diploma course would be two yearsstudy in any four of the seven branches of knowledge then on offer at theuniversity: history, political science, economics, natural science-biological,natural science-physico-chemical, modern languages and EnglishLiterature (see Appendix Xa). The object was to offer students a widerange of subjects in each branch of knowledge and even encourage thosetaking modern languages and sciences to familiarize themselves with twolanguages and two sciences instead of one. As appropriate courses ofstudy were already provided by various colleges in their curricula forintermediate, final pass, and honours students of the University, then theDiploma for Journalism students needed no special provision. However, itwas proposed, at the Conference of Representatives of the University (ofLondon) with Representatives of the Institute of Journalists, of theAppointments Branch of the Ministry of Labour and of the Board ofEducation in December 1918 that supplementary courses might be offeredin the following: 9[a]under the natural sciences: general history of scientific principles;[b]with English literature: general criticism, composition and the history ofjournalism;[c]with modern languages: the addition of courses in conversation andcomposition. 1°With up to nineteen hours a week devoted to lectures, including timespent in the laboratories in the natural sciences, there was little or no timefor students to ’devote themselves in the intervals of the course to suchexperimental practice of journalism’ as they might elect ’without prejudice tothe pursuit of their academic studies.’We have now seen it was the groundwork prepared by the Institute ofJournalists which underpinned this first university-based course injournalism. It was not until Mr. Mansfield’s letter of May 6 t", 1919, that theNational Union of Journalists was admitted into membership of theJournalism Committee of the University of London. This, in itself, is aninteresting development considering the evolution of the N.U.J., in 1907,when discussion in The Clarion had been critical of the Institute ofJournalists for its lack of progress on pay and conditions and its over-?0MOD100051241