Regulating the Press

How do we balance press regulation with freedom of information? This book provides the answers, taking into account converging media ownership and the threat it poses to democracy.

Free Press

'Regulating the Pres' is both a history of the Press Council and Press Complaints Commission and an analysis of the issues involved in press regulation. As rich in historical details as it is lucid in its arguments, it succeeds admirably on both counts.

Tom O'Malley is Principle Lecturer in Media at the University of Glamorgan. He has written extensively on press history and broadcasting policy and is the author of Closedown?: The BBC and Government Broadcasting Policy (Pluto Press, 1994).Clive Soley has been MP for Hammersmith 1979-97 and Ealing, Acton Shepherd’s Bush since 1997.