A SCHOOL FOR NEWPAPER WOMEN.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 35, 5 November 1907, Page 3

A SCHOOL FOR NEWPAPER WOMEN.

A journalistic schooljfor.women has been started in London. It aims to give' a practical education in all branches of news-' paper work, and it is conducted in connection; with •an .actual ; publishing establishment, from.which three magazines are issued. A' number of ■ literary women who have gained distinction in London by their work ere', interested in, the journalistic school, among them "John Strange .Winter," Mrs. Henry Reeves'and Mrs. : T. P. O'Connor./The Craigie was also interested, in it. !Miss Cartwright, the principal, ia herself en editor and a practical journalist, the daughter of-a publisher. . One of her magazines is. edited on the premises, and in'this way she, is . able to take.. her pupils through the .entire field, from the selection of subjects for articles, to the editing of copy and thesetting up of the matter, in type. ' tThere are. classes 'in story-writing, .interviewing, ■. fashion-draiying, story-illustration, ar,t, .dramatic and musical criticism, bbok-sub-editing, proof-correcting, and society, reporting; There,are classes also in typewriting,. shorthand, advertisement ■ writing,, and in French! ■'. --"'.. The great advantage of the London school is its location in the same building with an' actual publication office. ' Here the editor ; and the principal. discuss timely subjects »nd instruct the pupils in the task : of pieparing articles and stories which must be good for publication possibly a' year later than the time they are written. It is said that "'the best proof of the school's success is that the girls are already selling their' work and placing articles with the London papers arid magazines.