Lester John Holloway (born 22 July 1970) is a British journalist and editor, as well as a campaigner and local politician.

Career

Born in

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, Holloway began his media career as a reporter for ''

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'', a weekly newspaper published by Ethnic Media Group, in 1999. He later became News Editor at '' The Voice'', and was editor of the ''

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'' newspaper from January 2008 until January 2009, when the paper ceased production due to its parent company Ethnic Media Group going into administration.Paul McNally & Sally Newall
"Potential buyers emerge for New Nation newspaper"
''Press Gazette'', 23 January 2009. '' He was New Media Manager at the campaign group Operation Black Vote between June 2009 and March 2010, and worked fo
The Runnymede Trust
and the TUC, before returning to The Voice as Editor in 2021. Prior to

journalism Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree. The word, a noun, applies to the occupation (profes ...

, Holloway was a local authority councillor ( Labour Party) in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, between 1994 and 1998, representing the College Park and Old Oak Ward. He left the Labour Party in 2000 after nine years, and rejoined in 2017. In 1987, he won the

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Best of British Youth Award for his campaign to save an area of natural importance called "Scrubs Wood" in

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.Lester Holloway
"My letter to Boris Johnson over threat to destroy Scrubs Wood"
, 7 September 2013.

References

External links

Lester Holloway website.
* Ian Burrell

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'', 5 May 2008
Lester Holloway profile at ''The Guardian''
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