Captain Sir John Malcolm Fraser, 1st Baronet, GBE (24 December 1878 – 4 May 1949) was a British journalist and political adviser. Fraser was born in Hampstead, London. He became a journalist and rose rapidly to become assistant editor of The Standard. He was then successively editor of the Evening Standard and St James's Gazette, day editor of the Daily Express, and editor-in-chief of the Birmingham Gazette, and other papers in the same group. In 1910 Arthur Balfour appointed him adviser on press matters to the Conservative Party.