JOURNALISM LECTURE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21830, 19 June 1934, Page 12

JOURNALISM LECTURE

i _ PRESS AND WORLD AFFAIRS The treatment of world affairs in the press was outlined by Mr. A. E. Mulgan. literary editor of the Auckland Star and lecturer of the school of journalism at Auckland University College, in a lecture in the College Hall last evening. The lecture was th«> tnird oi a. weekly series arranced bv Mir. Mulgan in collaboration with the college and the Auckland branch of the New Zealand Journalists' Association. Dealing with the development of leader writing, Mr. Mulgan said the trend was toward lichter treatment—toward sword play instead of bJudireon- • ing. Study, notably of history, experience aud travel were necessary bpfore one could be fully -equipped to comment -on world affairs. The leader writer was often called upon to comment on, matters at a moment's notice and before facts were fullj known. The lecturer went on to describe the ■ nine London dailies and their policies, the important provincial press and the weekly .and monthly papers of England. He stressed the gravity of the of the press exerted in Germany, Austria, Italy and Russia