Draft:Sydney A. Moseley

Sydney Alexander Moseley (1888–1961) was a British journalist and early radio and television broadcasting pioneer with John Logie Baird.

He joined the staff of the Daily Express in 1910 and later became the Cairo correspondent of the New York Times; in 1914, after a period in the University of London Officers' Training Corps, he became the official correspondent to the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force; After the First World War, Moseley became a newspaper writer on radio both in Britain and in the United States; He was a founder and life member of the Overseas Press Club of America. As a radio commentator to American audiences his build-up was, "The Man Who Looks Like Winston Churchhill".

Sydney Moseley was the announcer on the occasion of the first experimental television broadcast made by the BBC in September 1929, and the first televised play was broadcast by the BBC on 14 July 1930 was Lance Sieveking and Sydney Moseley's production of Luigi Pirandello's experimental The Man with the Flower in his Mouth.

Despite supporting news censorship during wartime, in August 1944 Moseley broke the news story on the America Mutual Broadcasting System radio network about the allies' Operation Mincemeat ruse.

As an author, The Bookseller's reviews for August 1921 stated,

"[T]hose who have read his previous books know well Mr. Moseley possesses exceptional powers of vivid description and forceful writing. He can make his readers see the various scenes and incidents almost as if with his own eyes, and the artistic skill with which he emphasises the salient features or contrasts effectively one scene with another is in evidence on every page."

Works

• The Truth about the Dardanelles (1916)
• With Kitchenen in Cairo (1917)
• An Amazing Séance and an Exposure (1919)
• The Fleet from Within: Being the Impressions of a R. N. V. (1919)
• A Singular People, Etcb (1921)
• A Singular People: Being Glimpses Into the Private Affairs (1921)
• Haunts of the Gay East (1921)
• The Much Chosen Race! (1922)
• Love's Ordeal. An Unconventional Romance, Etc (1923)
• The Night Haunts of London (1923)
• Brightest Spots in Brighter London. A Comprehensive Guide to (1924)
• The Mysterious Medium (1924)
• The truth about Borstal (1926)
• Money-Making in Stocks and Shares (1927)
• The Truth about Broadmoor (1927)
• Short Story Writing and Free-Lance Journalism (1928)
• The Small Investor's Guide (1930)
• Conan Doyle's Ghost Challenge (1931)
• Television To-day and To-morrow (coauthor Harry John Barton Chapple) (1931)
• "Zone Television and the Television Arc" in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 144 No. 6 (June 1931), p. 379
• Broadcasting in My Time (1935)
• The Truth about a Journalist (1935)
• Television: A Guide for the Amateur (coauthor ‎Herbert McKay) (1936)
• A Simple Guide to Television (coauthor Harry Chapple) (1938)
• God Help America!: An Exhortation and a Sequel (1952)
• John Baird: The Romance and Tragedy of the Pioneer of Television (1952)
• The Private Diaries of Sydney Moseley (1960)