At the third attempt Jon Snow finally got to UCLAN this morning,although Virgin Trains conspired to delay that arrival and bite into the Vice Chancellor's lecture to staff.
Met by a rousing cheer as he entered,he maintained that his appetite for news was fostered by a meeting with Harold MacMillan at an early age when the former Conservative Prime Minister had more important things on his mind (such as his wife's affair with Bob Boothby)
What Snow radiated was an enthusiasm for journalism.Journalists ,he said, should not simply want to tell the story they should want to change the world.He also questioned whether it was enough simply to leave university with a journalism degree without having an experience of another subject."Knowledge of how to play the latest computer game was not enough"
Journalism backed by the onset of technology was at the cusp of a golden age he maintained.
However,good writing will still differentiate the good journalist from the rest of the pack,good journalist will not be based on an ability to electronically edit.
The problems of who will pay for the content will be found he said, as the news industry has always reinvented the business model.People will pay for quality.
Update-Snow has blogged about his visit to Preston
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