Martin O'Malley is a writer, journalist, and screenwriter. He has written for the Winnipeg Tribune, The Globe and Mail, Globe Magazine, the Toronto Star and United Church Observer, and contributed to Saturday Night, Maclean's, and Toronto Life .

At least one generation of Canadians knows the line "the state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation". Pierre Elliott Trudeau made it famous, but the line belongs to O'Malley. He wrote it when he was with The Globe and Mail.

He has written nine books, all non-fiction. The most recent is More than Meets the Eye: Watching Television Watching Us. He wrote it with John Pungente, a Jesuit who is a world authority on media literacy.

His other best known work is Gross Misconduct: The Life of Spinner Spencer. It became Atom Egoyan's first TV movie and won O'Malley the Author of the Year Award in 1989. His other books have dealt with The North (The Past and Future Land ) as well as medicine.

Now with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, O'Malley is an editor, writer and columnist for CBC News Online. He often speaks to young writers about writing for the web and was a featured speaker at the recent global conference on media literacy called "Summit 2000."