Tom O’Malley is Emeritus Professor of Media, Aberystwyth University and, formerly worked for the Campaign For Press and Broadcasting Freedom. Publications include: Closedown? The BBC and Government Broadcasting Policy, 1979-1992); with Clive Soley, Regulating The Press; with Janet Jones (eds) The Peacock Committee and UK Broadcasting Policy; with Siân Nicholas (eds) Newspapers, War and Society in the 20th Century He co-
founded the journal Media History. He is currently completing a history of the press in the Second World War