Bailey - Narrating Media History

Parts of Hugh Chignells chapter are reprinted from an earlier article The Birth of Radio 4s Analysis , The Journal of Radio Studies 13 (1), 2006, pp. 89102, by permission of the Taylor & Francis Group.

The editor would also like to thank all of the contributors, whom it has been a pleasure to work with. My thanks go also to Natalie Foster and Charlotte Wood at Routledge for their patience and invaluable support.

Michael Bailey teaches media history and cultural theory at Leeds Metropolitan University. He has published widely on the history of the early BBC, and is currently working on the 1984/85 miners strike and a co-authored study of Richard Hoggart. He is an honorary member of the Goldsmiths Media Research Programme, the international advisory board for the Louis le Prince Interdisciplinary Centre for Cinema, Photography and Television, University of Leeds, and Visiting Research Fellow at the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) at The Open University.

Adrian Bingham is a lecturer in modern history at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Gender, Modernity, and the Popular Press in Inter-War Britain (Oxford University Press, 2004) and Family Newspapers? Sex, Private Life, and the British Popular Press 19181978 (forthcoming). He is currently working on a project with Martin Conboy exploring the journalism of the Daily Mirror in the period 193569.

Menahem Blondheim teaches communication and American history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and serves as director of the universitys Smart Family Institute of Communication. After gaining a BA from the Hebrew University and MA and PhD degrees in history from Harvard University, he consulted and was an entrepreneur in the communication sector of the high-tech industry.

Hugh Chignell is reader in radio at The Media School, Bournemouth University, where he is also a member of the Centre for Broadcasting History Research. His doctoral research was on BBC Radio 4s Analysis programme, and he is currently working on a history of British current affairs radio. He is co-chair of the Southern Broadcasting History Group. Publications include various journal articles on radio history and Key Concepts in Radio Studies (Sage, 2008).

James Curran has been professor of communications at Goldsmiths, University of London, since 1989, and has held endowed visiting chairs at Penn, Stanford, Stockholm and Oslo Universities. He is the author or editor of eighteen books about the mass media, some in conjunction with others. These include Media and Power (2002), Power without Responsibility , 6th edition (2003), Mass Media and Society , 4th edition (2005) and Culture Wars (2005). He is the director of the Goldsmiths Media Research Programme, supported by a 1.25 million grant from the Leverhulme Trust.

Daniel Day is a PhD student at the Communication and Media Research Institute of the University of Westminster in London and a researcher on volume six of the official history of the BBC, currently being written by Professor Jean Seaton. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, his dissertation examines the evolution of BBC regional broadcasting from the late 1960s to the late 1980s. His research/teaching interests include broadcasting history, the media and identity and political communication. He is also on the editorial board of the journal Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture .

David Deacon is reader in media and politics at the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University. He has published widely in the fields of media sociology and political communication. His publications include Researching Communications: a Practical Guide to Media and Cultural Analysis , 2nd edition (with Michael Pickering, Peter Golding and Graham Murdock) and Taxation and Representation: The Media, Political Communication and the Poll Tax (with Peter Golding). His forthcoming book on British News Reporting of the Spanish Civil War will be published in 2009 by Edinburgh University Press.

Mark Hampton is associate professor of history at Lingnan University (Hong Kong) and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is the author of Visions of the Press in Britain, 18501950 (2004) and co-editor with Joel Wiener of Anglo-American Media Interactions, 18502000 (2007). He is a co-editor of the journal Media History and modern reviews editor for H-Albion . He is currently preparing a book manuscript on Hong Kong and Britishness, 194597.

Su Holmes is reader in television at the University of East Anglia. She is the author of British TV and Film Culture in the 1950s (Intellect, 2005), Entertaining TV: The BBC and Popular Programme Culture in the 1950s (Manchester University Press, 2008) and co-editor of Understanding Reality TV (Routledge, 2004), Framing Celebrity (Routledge, 2006) and A Reader in Stardom and Celebrity (Sage, 2007). Her key research and teaching interests are in British television history, contemporary popular television genres and the subject of celebrity.

Elihu Katz is trustee professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and professor emeritus of sociology and communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Jamie Medhurst is director of learning and teaching and lecturer in film and television history at the Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, University of Wales Aberystwyth. He teaches, researches and publishes on broadcasting history and issues of television and national identity.

Jeffrey Milland read PPE at Wadham College, Oxford. After graduating in 1962, he spent nearly forty years working in television, initially as a journalist, then as a producer and director. In 2005, he successfully completed a PhD on the origins and consequences of the 1962 Pilkington Report on broadcasting in the Historical Studies Department of Bristol University, where he went on to teach contemporary British history. He is now working towards an MA in aesthetics in the Philosophy Department of the University of Southampton.

Graham Murdock is reader in the sociology of culture at Loughborough University. He has been a visiting professor at the University of California at San Diego, The Free University of Brussels, Bergen University and Stockholm University, and is a former head of the Political Economy Section of the International Association of Media and Communication Research. His work has been translated into nineteen languages. He has a longstanding interest in the relations between innovations in media and social and cultural transformations and is currently researching the social impact of digital communication technologies. His latest book (co-edited with Janet Wasko) is Media in the Age of Marketisation (2007).

Julian Petley is professor of film and television at Brunel University. He has published widely on film and media studies. His most recent publication is a co-authored book with James Curran and Ivor Gaber, entitled Culture Wars: the Media and the British Left (University of Edinburgh Press, 2005). He is also principal editor for Journal of British Cinema and Television and a member of the editorial board for British Journalism Review .

Michael Pickering is professor of media and cultural analysis in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University. He has published in the areas of cultural history and the sociology of culture as well as media analysis and theory. His recent books include History, Experience and Cultural Studies (1997), Researching Communications (1999/2007), co-written with David Deacon, Peter Golding and Graham Murdock, Stereotyping: The Politics of Representation (2001), Creativity, Communication and Cultural Value (2004), co-written with Keith Negus, Beyond a Joke: The Limits of Humour (2005), co-edited with Sharon Lockyer, Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain (2008) and Research Methods for Cultural Studies (2008).