Ruth Teer-Tomaselli is Director of the Centre for Communication, Media and Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (Howard College), Durban, South Africa.Donal McCracken is Acting Dean and Head of the School of Applied Human Sciences in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa.

• Introduction Part I: Broadcasting 1. In service of Empire: the South African Broadcasting Corporation during World War II 2. Broadcasting to the ‘last outpost of the British Empire’: Anthony Lejeune, the man behind the SABC’s English Service London Letter (1965-1995) 3. Broadcasting to the Portuguese Empire in Africa: Salazar’s singular broadcasting policy 4. Imperial foundations of 20th-century media systems in the Caribbean 5. In service of two masters: a political history of radio in pre-independence Botswana 6. Empire and broadcasting in the interwar years: towards a consideration of public broadcasting in the British dominions Part II: Newspapers 7. The imperial British newspaper, with special reference to South Africa, India and the ‘Irish model’ 8. English newspapers in British colonial Hong Kong: the case of the South China Morning Post (1903-1941) 9. Reuters and the South African press at the end of Empire 10. Friends or foes? A critique of the development of the media and the evolving relationship between press and politics in Kenya