Roy Greenslade, Esq

Career: journalist; with Barking Advertiser 1962-66; sub ed: Lancashire Evening Telegraph 1966-67, Daily Mail Manchester 1967-69; dep chief sub ed The Sun 1969-71 and 1971-73, sub ed Daily Mirror 1971, pt/t sub ed Sunday Mirror 1975-79, news reader BBC Radio Brighton 1975-76, Daily Express and Daily Star 1979-81 (leaving as features ed), asst features ed The Sun 1981-86, managing ed (News) Sunday Times 1986-90, ed Daily Mirror 1990-91, conslt ed News International 1991, freelance 1992-, columnist The Guardian and The Observer 1996-2005, columnist Daily Telegraph 2005-; presenter Talk TV (Granada/BSkyB) 1996-97; dir: Impact Books 1993-98, Choocleus Ltd 1996-; presenter Mediumwave (BBC Radio 4); prof of journalism City Univ London 2003-; Hon DLitt Brighton 1999

Books and Publications: Goodbye to the Working Class (1975), Maxwell's Fall (1992), Press Gang (2003)