Tony Miles (journalist)

Anthony Miles (born 18 July 1930) is a former British newspaper editor.

Miles grew up in High Wycombe and worked on the Middlesex Advertiser, Nottingham Guardian and Evening Argus, before joining the Daily Mirror in 1954, as a feature writer. In 1966, he was appointed as an Assistant Editor, then the following year as Associate Editor, before becoming overall Editor of the newspaper in 1971.^[1]

Miles held the editorship for three years, following which he was appointed as Editorial Director of the Mirror Group, for a few years also serving as its chairman. He also sat on the Press Council and served as a director of Reuters. In 1984, he stood down from his remaining British posts, unhappy with Robert Maxwell's control of the Mirror,^[2] and moved to the United States, where he became an Executive Publisher with the Globe Communications Corporation, publisher of the National Examiner, until the early 1990s.^[1]

References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "MILES, Anthony John", Who Was Who
2. ↑ Roy Greenslade, Press Gang: How Newspapers Make Profits from Propaganda, pp.397-398