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.gaining their co-operation on vacation attachments as well as seekingpermanent places for those gaining their diplomas. With the collegiatestructure of the University it was difficult for the Journalism Committee topress its recommendations to completion as they had first to pass thehurdle of the Collegiate Council, representing members of the Colleges ofthe University, before they could be submitted to the University Senate. So,as early as 1929, the Committee was recommending that ’Journalismstudents should be registered at King’s College ’29 which reflected the factsof student registration that year when 43 were at King’s, 25 at UniversityCollege, 10 at the London School of Economics and 5 at Bedford College.The College Tutors for Journalism Students received an extra £25 each fortheir efforts.However, the Collegiate Council at the University wished to preserve theIntercollegiate basis of the course and was prepared to limit registration ofstudents to two centres: King’s and University Colleges, and it called onthese two to confer and report back. Meanwhile the Senate announced thatthe L.S.E. was withdrawing from the scheme in 1930-3130 and BedfordCollege finally withdrew at the end of 1935-36. 31Student Demands for More Practical JournalismStudents were just as vocal in their demands for more practicalinstruction, considering their numbers were back up to 112 in 1930-31, andincreasing in subsequent years to 113, then 115 and 119 in 1935-36.Students even went so far as to offer to pay for the extra costs involved inproducing a twelve-page, instead of the usual eight-page, L. U.J.S. Gazette,otherwise: ’a large proportion would be unable to have any contributionprovided (because) the total number of students will be so large. ’32Two professors, A.W. Reed of King’s and C.J. Sissons (1885-1966) ofUniversity College, submitted a report about the course to the CollegiateCouncil recommending their two colleges as centres for the journalismcourse but with extra practical journalism teaching. Mr E.G. Hawke had 72in his first-year Tuesday class and Mr Mansfield 39 in his second-yearTuesday class. Later that year the Provost of the University College wroteto the Council, after he had held talks with the Principals of both Bedfordand King’s, suggesting the three colleges continue making their ownarrangements about tutors and control of admission of students andarrange for the non-practical elements of the syllabus, as was the custom,but that King’s should take over from the University the entire control andresponsibility of the practical course, including the Gazette.The Journalism Committee’s response to this was to resolve that theultimate direction of the practical courses should remain in their own hands.Notwithstanding their objections the Collegiate Council considered theProvost of University College’s proposal as the one to follow andrecommended it should operate from the 1931/32 session? 3 It was pointedout to the Journalism Committee that this scheme would not interfere withtheir work and would, in fact, simplify existing arrangements and cut outany unnecessary duplication of bureaucracy. Essentially it would simplifyintercollegiate financial arrangements.79MOD100051250