Anthony John Miles (18 July 1930 – 14 April 2018), better known as Tony Miles, was a British newspaper editor. Miles grew up in

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. After attending the

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from 1942 to 1946, he worked on the '' Middlesex Advertiser'', ''

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'' and ''

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'', before joining the ''

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'' 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.MILES, Anthony John
, ''

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'' 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

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. In 1984, he stood down from his remaining British posts, unhappy with

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's control of the ''Mirror'',

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, ''Press Gang: How Newspapers Make Profits from Propaganda'', pp.397-398 and moved to the

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, where he became an Executive Publisher with the Globe Communications Corporation, publisher of the ''

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'', until the early 1990s. Miles died at the age of 87 on 14 April 2018 at Highgate Nursing Home, London.

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